INTRODUCTION A third of Americans have low health literacy (HL). Research indicates a significant knowledge and skills gap among residents pertaining to management of patients with low HL. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the teaching and evaluation methods around HL in community-based internal medicine residency programs. In addition, the study compared the teaching and e...

Introduction. Undergraduate medical students at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences spend most of their internal medicine rotations in inpatient wards and their teaching is inpatient oriented. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the patients admitted to general internal medicine wards have enough diversity to fulfill the educational needs of undergraduate medical students. ...

Introduction Community partnerships and community oriented teaching and learning are currently strong themes in schooling and teacher education, and it could be argued that this approach to curriculum through partnerships, community based teaching and learning and service-learning is now ‘centre stage’. In July this year, for example, the International Center for Service Learning in Teacher Edu...

An increase in the number of medical students in Israel has resulted in a relative shortage of clinical teaching sites, a problem being faced in many jurisdictions around the world. It has been shown that the rural setting is adequate for teaching internal medicine. Yoseftal Hospital (YH), a rural community hospital with 25 beds for medicine was chosen as a site for the internal medicine core c...

introduction. undergraduate medical students at shiraz university of medical sciences spend most of their internal medicine rotations in inpatient wards and their teaching is inpatient oriented. the purpose of this study was to investigate whether the patients admitted to general internal medicine wards have enough diversity to fulfill the educational needs of undergraduate medical students. me...

INTRODUCTION The Faculty of Medicine, Al-Baha University (FMBU), is a newly established medical school that implements a community-oriented and integrated system-based curriculum which is suitable for both medical students and serving the needs of the local community. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to describe the steps that were followed to plan, design, and implement an endocrinology an...

INTRODUCTION China is the most highly-populated country in the world with increasing demand for health care. Family medicine can improve health care in China, and can supply good health outcomes, equitably and economically. Family medicine education in China currently exists in three models — resident training, on-the-job training, and undergraduate teaching — but only undergraduate teaching ma...

Both general practitioners and community physicians practise a range of activities along a spectrum from health care to prevention, but increasingly they have come to regard preventive medicine as the key to their respective future roles. This convergence of goals is deceptive because the primary care model of prevention is individual-oriented while that of community medicine is population-orie...