Assessment of a medical student mentoring programme to improve attitudes related to grief and coping with death.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a mentoring programme for medical students doing a palliative care rotation, aimed at improving coping with death and attitudes towards the suffering produced by illness.

Methods: A quasi-experimental study without a control group was carried out on second-year medical students. Five 1-h group sessions were conducted.

The Challenge of Developing Entrepreneurial Competence in the University Using the Project-Oriented Learning Methodology.

One of the objectives of the United Nations and the European Commission is to encourage the implementation of education plans and strategies to develop entrepreneurial competence. This refers to the ability to identify needs or discover opportunities and to act on them in order to create value for society. This paper aims to demonstrate the impact of the project-oriented learning (POL) methodology on the development of certain generic or transversal competences associated with entrepreneurship among first-year university students in Madrid.