Modernizing medical education perspective from a developing country

Modernizing medical education: perspective from a developing country.

Trends in medical education, an example from a developing country.

BACKGROUND Iran is presently designing a long-term plan for promoting science, technology and innovation in medicine. An important part of this plan will be a strategy for future planning for medical education considering the important trends affecting the future of health status and medical education in Iran. Here, we sought to clarify such trends in Iran and compare them to trends reported fo...

Modernizing Optometric Education in Australia: Ideas from Medical Education

Little has changed in the delivery of optometric education in Australia for the past 40 years. In existing programs students undertake study in basic disciplines prior to gaining clinical exposure. This often occurs in university staff-student clinics, which are not necessarily representative of optometric practice in the wider community. Recently two new optometry programs have opened, both lo...

Rekindling the interest of primary care specialties among medical students of a developing country: perspective from Pakistani medical education systems.

general medicine, family and community medicine are losing their interest among Pakistani medical students. Although there has been an increased awareness of community based curriculum in local medical colleges, medical students of today prefer specialty training programmes over primary care specialties.1 Multiple factors including social, cultural, economical and personal interest of the medic...

Women in Healthcare: Barriers and Enablers from a Developing Country Perspective

Background As the under-representation of women in management positions continues to persist globally, little is known about the experiences of women in the healthcare sector in the context of the developing Middle Eastern nations. In an attempt to address this knowledge gap, the current study explores some of the barriers that hinder and the enablers that foster women’s career advancement in t...