BACKGROUND Despite the apparent benefits to teaching, many faculty members are reluctant to participate in medical education research (MER) for a variety of reasons. In addition to the further demand on their time, physicians often lack the confidence to initiate MER projects and require more support in the form of funding, structure and guidance. These obstacles have contributed to a decline i...

background: recently, the traditional and complementary medicine has largely gained interest among scholars across the globe. keeping pace with the on-going trend, the iranian academia have provided the phd course on traditional iranian medicine. in this study, we attempted to perform a qualitative study, comparing the phd curricula of the chinese and iranian traditional medicine in detail. met...

In 1940 the Yale University School of Medicine began an experiment in the field of medical education by creating a Section of Preventive Medicine, as a division of its Department of Internal Medicine.' No claim is made for priority with regard to this move, or that the idea was new, or that it should be repeated elsewhere. There was discussion at that time as to what the newly created division ...

INTRODUCTION Problem-based learning (PBL) is student-centred, self-directed and collaborative. In medical education it is based on clinical cases and is widely considered to facilitate the development of key professional competencies. Whilst PBL is extensively employed in medical schools worldwide, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine is one of very few schools that offer it to pre-clinica...

Computers, personal digital assistants (PDA), and the Internet are widely used as resources in medical education and clinical care. Educators who intend to incorporate these resources effectively into residency education programmes can benefit from understanding how residents currently use these tools, their skills, and their preferences. The researchers sent questionnaires to 306 US family med...

OBJECTIVE Acupuncture and moxibustion are categories of Japanese traditional medicine (Kampo). Precise teaching of Kampo is one of the important issues in medical education, and therefore acupuncture and moxibustion education has been applied to students in Tokai University School of Medicine. To investigate and compare the awareness the medical students have of acupuncture and moxibustion befo...

An analysis of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in US medical school curriculum was undertaken. Websites for 130 US medical schools were systematically analyzed for course listings and content. Half of the schools (50.8%) offered at least one CAM course or clerkship. A total of 127 different course listings were identified, embracing a range of topics and methods of instruction. The...

By training future physicians to care for patients with backgrounds different from their own, medical schools can help reduce health disparities. To address the need for education in this area, the leaders of the Family Medicine Clerkship at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University developed the Social and Community Context of Care project, required of all medical students rotating ...

introduction: medical emergencies can frequently happen in dental settings and inability to cope with them can lead to tragic outcomes. the of aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental settings in babol, iran and dentists’ self-perceived need for practical training in this field. materials and methods: a descriptive-ana-lytical study was performed by usin...

introduction: stress is an important factor in the educational process. teaching and learning are stressful processes. this stress can affect one’s ability and change his/her performance. the purpose of this study was to investigate stressors of clinical education from the perspective of medical students in yazd university of medical sciences. methods: this descriptive-analytic study was conduc...