Does the 'Educational Alliance' conceptualize the student - supervisor relationship when conducting a master thesis in medicine? An interview study.

Background: Completing a master thesis (MT) is mandatory in many undergraduate curricula in medicine but a specific educational framework to guide the supervisor-student relationship during the MT has not been published. This could be helpful to facilitate the MT process and to more effectively reach the learning objectives related to science education in medicine. An attractive model for this purpose is the 'Educational Alliance' (EA), which focusses on the three components 'clarity and agreement on (a) goals, (b) tasks and (c) relationship & roles'.

[Hospital Infections, Antibiotics and the Emergence of Resistance in English Hospitals, 1930-1960].

This paper examines the history of hospital infections, the clinical introduction of antibiotics and the emergence of antibiotic resistant disease strains in English hospitals between 1930 and 1960. It argues that infection has been an almost constant problem for the modern, curative hospital. The arrival first of sulphonamides and later of antibiotics provided a cost-effective, readily available counter-measure which proved to be highly effective in the short term.

Negotiating hospital infections: the debate between ecological balance and eradication strategies in British hospitals, 1947-1969.

This paper reviews and contrasts two strategies of infection control that emerged in response to the growing use of antibiotics within British hospitals, c. 1946-1969. At this time, we argue, the hospital became an arena within which representatives of the medical sciences and clinical practices contested not so much the content of knowledge but the way that knowledge translated into practice.