Role of advanced simulation in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education

Undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Canada.

An overview of medical education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Canadian faculties of medicine is provided. Particular attention is focused on changes that have occurred in the 1990s and their effect on medical students and on educational programs. Also considered are the effects of reductions in the number of entry-level positions for residency training and the changes in...

Mentoring portfolio use in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

AIM Mentoring is widely acknowledged as being crucial for portfolio learning. The aim of this study is to examine how mentoring portfolio use has been implemented in undergraduate and postgraduate settings. METHOD The results of interviews with six key persons involved in setting up portfolio use in medical education programmes were used to develop a questionnaire, which was administered to 3...

18 Simulation in Postgraduate Medical Education

(RCPSC), with the AFMC acting as the project secretariat. Executive Summary At its broadest, simulation in medical education refers to the representation or reproduction of something real by imitation, for the purposes of training or assessment. Simulation has increasingly become part of mainstream postgraduate medical education in Canada. It is perceived as a qualitatively different learning e...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

Postgraduate Medical Education.