PURPOSE Medical schools and graduate medical schools should understand the personality and psychological qualities of graduate medical students, medical students, and premedical students and link them with the curriculum. METHODS In this study, through June 2010 we analyzed medical papers that were published in Korea. The search terms were psychological terminology, including emotion, cogniti...

CONTEXT Asthma has been reported as a disease of increasing prevalence. OBJECTIVE To assess the level of information and knowledge about asthma by means of a questionnaire among recent graduate physicians applying for medical residency at the Clinical Hospital of the University of São Paulo Medical School, Brazil. DESIGN 14 multiple-choice questions for asthma diagnosis and management. SE...

BACKGROUND The urgent need for patient safety education for healthcare students has been recognised by many accreditation bodies, but to date there has been sporadic attention to undergraduate/graduate medical programmes. Medical students themselves have identified quality and safety of care as an important area of instruction; as future doctors and healthcare leaders, they must be prepared to ...

The Australian Medical Council (AMC) is an independent company for quality assurance and quality improvement in medical education in Australia and New Zealand. Accreditation procedures for the 20 medical schools in these two countries are somewhat different for three different circumstances or stages of school development: existing medical schools, established courses undergoing major changes, ...

This study is to investigate the historical characteristics of medical education and healthcare environment in Korea and to suggest the desirable direction for future medical education. We draw a consensus through the literature analysis and several debates from the eight experts of medical education. There are several historical characteristics of medical education: medical education as vocati...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is changing residency program assessment to include education outcomes assessment, challenging resources of residency training programs. The internet is a means of sharing education resources among training programs. METHODS A multicenter survey was distributed to leaders of 80 internal medicine residency training prog...

Phillips and Duffrin • Medical education In 1994, Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-COM) and osteopathic medical educators forged a new partnership that changed the fundamental delivery of osteopathic undergraduate and graduate education across Ohio. This partnership resulted in the establishment of the Centers for Osteopathic Regional Education (CORE) system, which began oper...

The International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM) mission is to improve emergency medicine (EM) around the world. Central to this philosophy is specialty development through an emphasis on education. To achieve that goal, the IFEM published manuscripts in 2009 and 2011 describing undergraduate (also known as “medical school”) education and graduate education (also known as “residency tr...

T he task faced by high schools is perhaps the most diffi cult in all of education. High schools not only are charged with preparing students for college, but also with serving the needs of the many students who will directly enter the workforce. High schools have to offer greater portfolios of options and sort students appropriately across those options. At the same time, compared with lower g...