Core Teaching Skills: Effective teaching behaviors and objectives are outlined in this University of Washington, School of Medicine toolbox targeted at small group teaching in a medical school. Several modules, including goal setting, giving feedback and common teaching challenges can be found by clicking on those topics listed at the left of the screen. The overview and detail of a skills prac...

An effective program evaluation process is vital to the management of a medical school curriculum. JABSOM's comprehensive program evaluation system helps to ensure that the school remains a leader in medical education and provides valuable information in its quest to develop outstanding physicians who will serve the people of Hawaii and the Pacific.

Core Teaching Skills: Effective teaching behaviors and objectives are outlined in this University of Washington, School of Medicine toolbox targeted at small group teaching in a medical school. Several modules, including goal setting, giving feedback and common teaching challenges can be found by clicking on those topics listed at the left of the screen. The overview and detail of a skills prac...

To determine whether a pass/fail system is more appropriate for medical education instead of a grade-based system, a survey of medical students and faculty members of Hallym University, Korea, was taken. A questionnaire was delivered to 54 junior students and 36 faculty members from a medical school in Korea and analyzed. Of these participants, 37.7% of students and 36.1% of faculty agreed to t...

The vernacular students will now obtain a practical training in pharmacy, hospital details, and clinical medicine and surgery, which they have never had the opportunity hitherto of receiving. We augur the-best results from the change which has now been accomplished, and believe that the " Vernacular Licentiates" who will now issue from the new vernacular medical school will be more thoroughly a...

I FEEL that no greater honour could have been conferred uponl mlie by mily colleagues than that I should have been asked to deliver this year's Robert Camlipbell Oratioln. Yet it was with more than usual diffidence that I accepted their invitation. In tlle past when we have drawni orators from outside our own school we have been able to honiour a Colebrook or a Fleming, wN7hilst inside the scho...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the idealizations of medical education institutions and their implementation between 1890 and 1930. The case of the state of São Paulo is particular. Firstly, for the absence of a medical school until the beginning of the 20th century. Besides, for the gap between the law, of 1891, which forsaw the installation of such a school, and the effective creation ...

BACKGROUND Sense of coherence is related to well-being, stress and life satisfaction among medical students and physicians. The purpose of the study was to investigate relation between sense of coherence during medical education and styles of success in the medical career. METHODS The participants were first examined when they applied to medical school in 1999. Questionnaires were given to th...