the goal of medicine is to prevent harm as hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. has this fact been taken into account in developing medical education curricula in asia? frequency of diseases in asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  it is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to ...

From the Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. Corresponding author: W. Mark Armstrong, MD, Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, 3500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75246. THE EMMETT ERA Upon Dr. John Fordtran’s retirement in 1995, a national search was organized to find the next chief of internal medicine at Baylor Univers...

Medical students must be prepared for working in inter-professional and multi-disciplinary clinical teams centred on a patient's care pathway. While there has been a good deal of rhetoric surrounding patient-centred medical education, there has been little attempt to conceptualise such a practice beyond the level of describing education of communication skills and empathy within a broad 'profes...

introduction lumbar puncture (lp) is a commonly needed procedure in pediatric medicine. in teaching hospitals, it is usually taught to junior residents by senior residents. objectives the goal of this study was to determine the dexterity of pediatrics residents in performing this procedure. patients and methods all pediatric residents of shiraz university of medical sciences were enrolled in th...

background: the modern electronic technologies have had a deep impact on traditional methods of education and brought forth new methods for effective education. electronic portfolio is one of the newest methods of teaching. therefore, the purpose of the present research was to study the impact of using e-portfolio on nursing students' learning in physiology course. methods: the design of t...

PROBLEM To quantify the relative prevalence of traditional (education, research, service) and emerging (prevention, diversity, primary care, distribution, cost control) themes in medical school mission statements. APPROACH In 2011, the authors obtained and analyzed the mission statements from 136 MD-granting and 34 DO-granting medical schools. They read each for the presence of traditional an...

The time is now ripe for the development of broad standards of educational content of postgraduate work, standards that will emphasize objectives and stimulate higher achievement without inhibiting widespread experimentation with means and methods. To make this postgraduate work most effective and of good educational content, it should be considered as a continuation of undergraduate and gradua...

in order to improve the quality of education in universities of medical sciences (ums), and because of the key role of education development centers (edcs), an accreditation scheme was developed to evaluate their performance.a group of experts in the medical education field was selected based on pre-defined criteria by edc of ministry of health and medical education. the team, worked intensivel...

background and purpose: two important clinical education methods are problem-based and student-centered. however, education of “clinical decision-making skills” and “application of clinical knowledge” is important. usually training these cases is done in small groups . in this study, new method of scientific textbooks with four factors mentioned above has been implemented in large education gro...

In response to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education mandate that medical education must address both the needs of an increasingly diverse society and disparities in health care, medical schools have implemented a wide variety of programs in cultural competency. The authors critically analyze the concept of cultural competency and propose that multicultural education must go beyond the tra...