Footnotes

• Contributors JO-M conceptualised the initial idea for this manuscript. All authors contributed their personal experiences of being graduate or undergraduate medical students and/or the teaching of medical students. JO-M and NY drafted the initial manuscript. All authors read, drafted and provided comments on the final manuscript.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests JO-M and NY were graduate medical students and AJ was an undergraduate medical student. AR is a graduate medical student. JO-M, NY, AR and AJ have no further competing interests to disclose.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.