Cendan J, Lok B. The use of virtual patients in medical school curricula. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 48–53, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00054.2011.—The demonstration of patient-based cases using automated technology [virtual patients (VPs)] has been available to health science educators for a number of decades. Despite the promise of VPs as an easily accessible and moldable platform, their widespread acc...

This is a reflective essay based on the experience of developing a structure and function module within a new integrated medical curriculum. Our hope is that the insights we gained during a 4-yr journey in a new medical school will be transferable to others engaged with curriculum development. Here, we present an interpretive analysis of our personal experiences together with some original rese...

Introduction Embryology forms a valuable part of the medical school curriculum. However, medical students traditionally struggle with revising embryology and appreciating its relevance. Condensing the teaching content, implementing peer-teaching methods, and increasing clinical focus in curricula have been suggested as methods to improve student engagement. Methods Medical students at two uni...

BACKGROUND Despite there being a concerted effort in recent years to influence what doctors can do to tackle health inequalities in the UK, there has been limited policy focus on what undergraduate students need to learn at medical school in preparation for this. This project led by members of the Health Inequalities Group of the Royal College of General Practitioners in collaboration with the ...

INTRODUCTION The importance of research, as promoted by the CanMEDS framework, is widely acknowledged. Many medical students in Germany work on a research project as part of their doctoral thesis whilst still going to medical school. However, a significant amount of projects are abandoned unfinished, which leads to substantial wastage of resources. One reason for this is an information deficit ...

Approximately 38% of US pharmacy schools provide immunization education and training to pharmacy students as part of their core curricula. These deficiencies in immunization education and training may contribute to low immunization rates for some groups of people, particularly hard-to-reach consumers and those with misconceptions about vaccinations. In this paper, we call upon all pharmacy scho...

In response to the General Medical Council's initiative to reform UK medical undergraduate education only a minority of medical schools have developed entirely novel curricula. Although the experiences gained by these schools in curriculum design and planning have not been recorded in the literature they are likely to be of interest to other medical schools still contemplating course revision. ...

The biopsychosocial model, which has extraordinary merit for explaining and predicting health and well-being, has had relatively limited acceptance over the past 25 years. There may be a variety of reasons for this, but the forces that shape medical education must be taken into account if the biopsychosocial model is to be more fully accepted than it is currently. Two factors, medical school fi...

In the Kenyan medical educations system, one has to go through one year of internship after graduating from medical school in order to be licensed to practise medicine. This internship period is laden with work to the extent of overwhelming and stressing the medical officer interns. Irrespective of what competence interns come with into the field there is still a lot they have to learn from the...

BACKGROUND Medical school curricula have undergone considerable change in the past half century. There is little evidence, however, for the impact of various curricula and educational policies on student learning once incoming performance and the nonrandom nature of students nested within schools has been accounted for. PURPOSE To investigate effects of school variables on United States Medic...