New “Profiles” for tomorrow’s health professionals: Welcome! We need you.

The “Profiles” profile: “a change in the [medical] teaching and learning paradigm” hopefully scrutinised in the future

The publication of the new Profiles article in the Swiss Medical Weekly marks halftime of the extensive second revision of the SCLO first published in 2000.

Hospital revascularisation capability and quality of care after an acute coronary syndrome in Switzerland

The authors aimed at comparing hospitals with and without percutaneous coronary intervention facilities regarding guidelines-recommended secondary prevention interventions after an acute coronary syndrom.

Climate data, localisation of the sting, grade of anaphylaxis and therapy of hymenoptera stings

There has recently been an upsurge of media reports on hymenoptera, including bees, wasps and ants.

False positive dengue NS1 antigen test in a traveller with an acute Zika virus infection imported into Switzerland

The authors report the first case of an acute Zika virus infection imported into Switzerland by a traveller returning from Canoa Quebrada, Ceará state, in the north-eastern part of Brazil.

The “Profiles” document: a modern revision of the objectives of undergraduate medical studies in Switzerland

This article presents the proposed structure and content of Profiles, a new document which, in the future, will direct the format of undergraduate studies and of the Federal Licensing Examination. Profiles stands for the Principal Relevant Objectives for Integrative Learning and Education in Switzerland.