INTRODUCTION Various curricular innovations were adopted by medical schools worldwide in an attempt to produce medical graduates that could meet future healthcare needs of society locally and globally. This paper presents findings on curricular approaches implemented in Malaysian medical schools, in trying to meet those needs. METHODS Information was obtained from published records, responses...

Under graduate medical education aims at producing doctors who are competent in preventive, promotive and curative knowledge and skills. The community medicine curriculum in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has been designed with this objective in view. Students are given community oriented training in urban and rural settings whereby students are taught to carry out various a...

This editorial is based on an ethnographic case study of a six-year (1992-1998), $6 million project at Michigan State University and three surrounding communities. The project was called the Community/University Health Partnerships (C/UHP). Its overarching goal was to transform health profession education to create more community-oriented primary care practitioners. Community participation was ...

introduction. community orientation is a concept that nowadays seems necessary for medicine related services. although our country has some degree of progress in this policy but we are still far from ideal condition. there are some problems affecting our improvement in this policy such as lack of budget and deficiency of proper health care centers for come. so, the investigator has tried to stu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Few studies address the satisfaction of community preceptors in different specializations. This study compares preceptor satisfaction of family physicians with other physician specialties. METHODS All 1,221 physician preceptors in a statewide system received surveys by mail. RESULTS Almost 67% returned questionnaires. The group consisted of 46% family physicians, 2...

Pediatric Annals has been a premier continuing medical education resource for the general pediatrician for the last 40 years. For the past 14 years, as Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Stanford T. Shulman and his Associate Editor, Dr. Robert Listernick, and their contributors have done an excellent job of keeping practitioners current with clinically relevant, thoughtful articles that have been presented i...

CONTEXT Exposure of undergraduate medical students to general practice and community healthcare services is common practice in the international medical curricula. Nevertheless, proponents of the hospital and biotechnology based paradigm, which is still dominant within the medical academic environment, question both the scope and the setting of this training procedure. Regarding the latter, the...

The aim was to identify differences and similarities in views regarding asthma management among general practitioners in four European countries (Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden), and to explore reasons for suboptimal performance. The results are to be used for the development and tailoring of educational interventions. Semistructured interviews with 20 GPs in each country were conducte...

Although our country faces a looming shortage of doctors, constraints of space, funding, and patient volume in many existing residency programs limit training opportunities for medical graduates. New residency programs need to be created for the expansion of graduate medical education training positions. Partnerships between existing academic institutions and community hospitals with a need for...