Teaching leprosy to medical students.

Teaching ethics to medical students.

While few would deny that some attention must be given to ethical issues as part of a medical student's education it has never been clear how this might be best achieved. And at the present time those who are battling with this problem have a further dilemma. On the one hand, the numbers of ethical issues that face the medical profession are increasing at a frightening rate, ranging as they do ...

Teaching the humanities to medical students.

The decoding of the human genome offers great promise for the understanding and treatment of chronic human diseases at the last frontier. There is a widely recognised hazard that an exaggerated emphasis on molecular reductionism may lead to the loss of the essential humanitarian instincts of young doctors. To counteract this danger it is now accepted by many leading figures of the medical estab...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students

Teaching medical students to prioritize preventive services.

BACKGROUND Clinicians cannot provide all recommended preventive services in a single office visit and must learn to prioritize. This skill is not overtly addressed in medical school. METHODS We designed a workshop to teach third-year medical students to prioritize preventive services during an office visit. In a prospective controlled trial, we compared performance on a standardized patient c...

Teaching of chest radiology to medical students.

The method of teaching chest roentgenobogy to medical students at the University of Oregon Medical School is based upon the premise that useful knowledge cannot be attained without practical experience. In a medical school, brilliant teachers cannot serve in lieu of actual patients. Lectures, though superbly organized, illustrated and delivered do not constitute an adequate substitute for reali...