Educating the doctor: basic medical education.

Basic Medical Education

IN its technical aspects medical education in the United Kingdom is traditionally amateur. Curricula conform only within the widest of guidelines; teaching methods and performances are rarely assessed; examinations are often antiquated in concept and execution and the results rarely validated; the syllabus is organised frequently with the convenience of teachers the overriding desideratum and i...

Basic sciences curriculum in medical education

Introduction: Traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at Shiraz Medical School. Such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. The goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colleg...

Challenges in medical education-what the doctor ordered?

Cuban medical education: aiming for the six-star doctor.

Profound changes are under way in Cuban medical education. Some aspects of this transformation represent radical shifts, others a deepening of processes already in motion. Together, these changes reflect a progressive sense of urgency over the last four decades to: 1) scale up physician training to meet the needs of the whole population; 2) recruit and train scientifically prepared and socially...

Doctor-patient dialogue--basic aspect of medical consultation.

Family medicine is the specialty that provides ongoing primary medical care and improves the health status of the individual, of the family and of the community through preventive, educational, therapeutic and rehabilitation measures. The family doctor often makes the interdisciplinary synthesis, in a flexible manner, either alone or in most cases with interdisciplinary consultation. In the lat...