Although several projects have addressed the importance of gender health issues in medical education, the sustainability of change efforts in medical education has rarely been addressed. Understanding the possible facilitators or barriers to sustainability may help to develop future interventions that are effective in maintaining gender health issues as a topic in medical curricula. The aim of ...

OBJECTIVE The overall objective of the project was to determine whether the current MD undergraduate curriculum at the University of British Columbia (UBC) met the minimum competencies in women's health according to available guidelines. METHODS Ovid and MEDLINE were searched for information on women's health topics in medical undergraduate curricula. The Association of Professors of Obstetri...

PURPOSE Patient safety has emerged as a global concern in the provision of quality health care, and yet, to date, few medical schools have created and/or implemented patient safety curricula. The purpose of this article is to introduce readers to one model of a patient safety undergraduate medical curriculum, as designed by a group of experts attending an annual interdisciplinary roundtable ass...

BACKGROUND All UK medical schools use primary care settings to deliver their undergraduate courses. However there is no national undergraduate curriculum for primary care and it is thought that the learning objectives of primary care teaching vary considerably between medical schools. AIM The overall aim was to establish what is being taught within and by primary care across UK medical school...

OBJECTIVE To study medical students' views about the quality of the teaching they receive during their undergraduate training, especially in terms of the hidden curriculum. DESIGN Semistructured interviews with individual students. SETTING One medical school in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS 36 undergraduate medical students, across all stages of their training, selected by random and q...

BACKGROUND Major curriculum reform of undergraduate medical education occurred during the past decades in the United Kingdom (UK); however, the effects of the hidden curriculum, which influence the choice of primary care as a career, have not been sufficiently recognized. While Japan, where traditionally few institutions systematically foster primary care physicians and very few have truly embr...

introduction: leadership and management are two expected features and competencies for general practitioners (gps). the purpose of this study was leadership and management curriculum planning for gps which was performed based on kern’s curriculum planning cycle. methods: this study was conducted in 2011-2012 in iran using an explanatory mixed-methods approach. it was conducted through an initia...

Radiology undergraduate curriculum has undergone a tremendous transformation in the decades reflecting a change in the structure, content and delivery of instruction. These changes are not unique to the discipline, but rather a response in the cycle of the re-engineering process in the medical curriculum in order to ensure its proper role into the ever-changing context. Radiology education is n...