INTRODUCTION Previous studies on patient acceptance of medical student teaching were from Western populations and in one setting only. However, there has been no prospective study comparing patient acceptability before and after an actual experience. We studied patient acceptability of medical student teaching in private and public family practices and public hospital specialist outpatient clin...

introduction: traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at shiraz medical school. such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. the goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education. methods: a descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colle...

Whether this distribution of effort is correct may be subject to debate, but at least a significant portion of the workload of many medical physicists is spent in education. Especially for medical physicists in an academic setting, much of this time is spent in formal courses — teaching medical physics students, medical residents, or allied health personnel such as radiography students and radi...

It is increasingly agreed that ethics has a place in undergraduate medical education. There is, however, debate about how it should be taught, and by whom. We present our experience of teaching ethics in a general practice module over six years. During this period there has been a shift from a teacher-centred to a student-centred approach in which students choose ethical issues to explore withi...

The foremost aim of medical education is improvement of health for all human beings. This is the goal of the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME). The WFME is an international organization representing all medical doctors and teachers, as well as teaching institutions. Along with publishing its workbook, the WFME aims to implement the highest ethical and scientific standards in medical...