Practicing doctors' perceptions on new learning objectives for Vietnamese medical schools

Practicing doctors' perceptions on new learning objectives for Vietnamese medical schools

BACKGROUND As part of the process to develop more community-oriented medical teaching in Vietnam, eight medical schools prepared a set of standard learning objectives with attention to the needs of a doctor working with the community. Because they were prepared based on government documents and the opinions of the teachers, it was necessary to check them with doctors who had already graduated a...

New Medical Schools

One of the most valuable of recent efforts for the treatment of mental disease has been the establishment of the Maudsley Hospital with its pathological department for the purpose of research in psychological medicine. Started at the suggestion of Dr. Henry Maudsley, who gave altogether ?40,000 towards the cost of building, it was erected for the teaching of this subject, and for the treatment,...

Learning disabilities and medical schools.

Learning disabilities are a group of disorders that affect 10-15% of the general population and 3% of United States medical students. Medical students with learning disabilities are typically unaware of their disorder and may only learn of it when the pace of medical school curriculum overtakes what were previously successful study techniques. Despite the significant prevalence of this disorder...

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Medical students' perspectives on biomedical informatics learning objectives

Objectives: To explore medical student perspectives regarding the importance of biomedical informatics learning objectives to career development, and the amount of emphasis that should be placed on content associated with these objectives in the curriculum. Methods: A Web-based survey was e-mailed to 405 students enrolled at the University of Utah, School of Medicine in spring 2008. Respondents...