Making more of it! Medical students' motives for voluntarily keeping an extended portfolio.

Background: Although medical students' use of portfolios has been studied from many angles, little is known about their motivations.

Aim: This article explores medical students' motives for voluntarily compiling a learning portfolio that widely exceeded the assignments.

Methods: Content analysis was performed on 22 (8%; n = 22/269) extensive portfolios, followed by a semi-structured interview with 11 medical students.

Disentangling clinical learning experiences: an exploratory study on the dynamic tensions in internship.

Clinical practice is an essential component of medical training, but not all internships yield the appropriate and expected learning results. We report on an exploratory study of the learning process during internship in undergraduate medical education. We hypothesised that learning experiences in clinical practice are determined by characteristics of the interns, characteristics of the training setting and the meaningful interactions between them.