A traditional or an innovative approach to assessment: The Assessment PROFILE.

The widely used SPICES framework focused on curriculum development. The Assessment PROFILE serves a similar purpose for current trends in assessment. A school has to decide where it wishes to lie on each of the continua: a programme-focused approach with decisions based on evidence collected from a number of sources; authentic assessment based on assessment in the 'real world'; outcome-/competency-based assessment; assessment learning; assessment with an impact; learner engagement; and quality assurance and evaluation of the assessment.

Medical Teacher's equity diversity inclusion policy.

Medical Teacher is a leading international journal in health professions education. The Journal recognizes its responsibility to publish papers that reflect the breadth of topics that meet the needs of its readers around the globe including contributions from countries underrepresented in the health professions education arena. This paper sets out the Journal's policy with regard to Equity Diversity Inclusion (EDI) and the steps to be taken to implement the policy in practice.

Description of an activity-based enzyme biosensor for lung cancer detection.

Background: Lung cancer is associated with the greatest cancer mortality as it typically presents with incurable distributed disease. Biomarkers relevant to risk assessment for the detection of lung cancer continue to be a challenge because they are often not detectable during the asymptomatic curable stage of the disease. A solution to population-scale testing for lung cancer will require a combination of performance, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and simplicity.