OBJECTIVE The current trend in medical education is to abandon the experience-based traditional model and embrace the competency-based education model (CBE). The basic principle behind CBE is standardization. The first step in standardization is to determine what students must know, what they must accomplish, and what attitude they should display, and the establishment of educational goals. One...

The rapid development of the undergraduate major in public health over the past 15 years has led to a debate about the most appropriate framing for the degree. Should it be viewed as a liberal education degree (akin to academic disciplines such as psychology and political science) or as a professional training degree (akin to disciplines such as nursing and management)? This paper presents an o...

The basic purpose of teaching and training at undergraduate level is to prepare medical graduates to serve better at primary health care level. The patients with physical illness have concomitant emotional problems requiring professional handling, therefore teaching of psychiatry at undergraduate level becomes even more relevant and essential. The main aim of primary health care is to de-profes...

BACKGROUND In most medical schools, graduate students, sometimes referred to as graduate teaching assistants, often participate in the training of undergraduate students. In developing countries like Uganda, are typically involved in undergraduate training. However, prior to this study there were no standard guidelines for this involvement. At the same time, the views and experiences of the gra...

Purpose: To verify the effectiveness of a training for acoustic voice assessment with undergraduate students of Speech-Language Pathology. Methods: Study conducted with 14 undergraduate students of Speech-Language Pathology who participated in six theoretical/practical weekly encounters, whose total duration was four hours and a half. Basic concepts of acoustic voice assessment was performed; w...

OBJECTIVES To determine the minimum and ideal undergraduate experiences in pediatric psychology expected by graduate faculty; to determine the experiences current trainees gained prior to graduate admission; to compare trainee experiences with faculty expectations. METHODS Faculty and current trainees completed surveys. RESULTS Faculty expectations of minimum and ideal undergraduate trainin...

Discussions of and recommendations for the training of clinical neuropsychologists exist at the doctoral, internship, and post-doctoral level. With few exceptions, the literature on undergraduate preparations in clinical neuropsychology is sparse and lacks empirical evidence. In the present study, graduate-level faculty and current trainees completed surveys about graduate school preparations. ...

Junior medical staff provides a large proportion of undergraduate student education. However, despite increasing numbers of resident-as-teacher training programs, junior doctors may still not be sufficiently prepared to teach medical students. Hence, medical schools should consider implementing formal teaching skills training into undergraduate curricula.

Purpose: Teaching ultrasound procedures to undergraduates has recently been proposed to improve the quality of medical education. We address the impact of applying standardized dermatologic ultrasound teaching to our undergraduates. Materials and Methods: Medical students were offered an additional theoretical and practical seminar involving hands-on ultrasound dermatologic ultrasound during th...