Medical education has changed in focus and methodologies since its early beginnings and more recently has become more professionalized and community oriented. This article considers some of the current international trends in undergraduate medical education in program design, curriculum structure and student selection, exploring their relevance to the South Pacific

Health Centers appeared in the United States around 1910. They provided social assistance in conjunction with some type of medical care. Their original separation between preventive and curative medicine was superseded by the concept of whole health in the 1940s, when Health Center discourse became part of medical education. In the 1960s, the notion of community medicine arose out of the war on...

introduction. there is an obvious gap between traditional medical education and occupational expectations of medical graduates. so in order to eliminate this problem and promote students competence in clinical process, a new educational strategy, entitled “ambulatory care education (ace)” have been suggested which is based on integration of individual clinical expertise and the medical educatio...

Introduction. There is an obvious gap between traditional medical education and occupational expectations of medical graduates. So in order to eliminate this problem and promote students competence in clinical process, a new educational strategy, entitled “ambulatory care education (ACE)” have been suggested which is based on integration of individual clinical expertise and the medical educatio...

background: due to the intense competition that has dominated the world economy, providing additional services to customers and quality improvement are not considered as added value but as necessary and inevitable. therefore, higher education, and focusing on customers, particularly students, is the main pillar of progress and comprehensive development of each country. hence, the purpose of thi...

Medical education has been changing rapidly in Saudi Arabia. Within a decade, the number of medical colleges increased from 5 medical schools with traditional disciplined-based curricula to 21 medical colleges with varied curricula ranging from the traditional to more innovative, problem-based, community-oriented programmes. The private sector has started investing in higher education generally...

BACKGROUND Disaster is a serious public health issue. Health professionals and community residents are main players in disaster responses but their knowledge levels of disaster medicine are not readily available. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge levels and training needs of disaster medicine among potential disaster responders and presented a necessity to popularize disaster medicine educ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this evaluation study was to identify the feasibility of repurposing specific online modules developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as continuing education modules for front-line practitioners, in teaching clinical epidemiology to undergraduate medical students. Specifically, relevancy of the content, quality of online material, time-effectiveness of using the...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES As a response to the growing prevalence of chronic disease, models of chronic care have emerged as salient approaches to address dynamic health care changes and to manage the burden of suffering of these diseases. Concurrently, there has been a growing call to address chronic disease management within medical school curricula. This article describes the development and...