Article History
Received: 24 November 2016
Accepted: 1 June 2018
First Online: 20 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This project is an internal service evaluation of a degree course. No NHS staff or patients were involved. Subjects were undergraduate students evaluating their course, a routine activity. Enhancing the previous routine elective evaluation to include questions on ethics and limitations was approved by the Vice Dean for Education and the Birmingham MBChB Curriculum Committee. External ethical approval was not sought as there was no subject recruitment. The course evaluation was a voluntary online survey. Participants received information about the evaluation by email, including data use, with the survey link. This information was replicated on the first page of the survey itself. Completion of the questionnaire and submission of it by the student was consented. After the study the University of Birmingham Research Support Committee reviewed the project for approval to disseminate findings. The proposed use of data here was permitted as benefits outweigh potential harm.
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