Mehdizah and colleagues recently described the prevalence of General Medical Council regulatory performance assessments by doctors' country of primary medical qualification. This article has caused anger within the UK-international medical community because it identifies graduates of certain countries with significantly raised prevalence.The present article comments on evidence from published R...

Peer teaching by medical students is increasingly consid- ered an effective and efficient instructional modality with value for both teachers and learners. In 2012, twelve senior medical students participated in an inaugural, four-week Medical Education Elective at The Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The first week emphasized education theory and skills. During the remaining three we...

Student course evaluations were analyzed for common themes across five different basic science, clinical, and innovative courses from the first and third years of medical school. Each course had both unique and common numerically scaled items including an overall quality rating item. A principal components analysis was conducted for each course to determine the items that loaded most heavily on...

background according to the needs of health education, community oriented medical education was recommended. health students must learn more about prevalent diseases in their communities. objectives to introduce community oriented medical sciences education to students learning pathobiology and its effects. materials and methods this study was a quasi-experimental study conducted using the revi...

In this issue, Brenner and colleagues report a correlation between the frequency of negative comments in the "dean's letter" and future problems during a psychiatry residency program. Their study makes an important contribution to the body of literature on factors that predict professionalism-related performance issues during residency and suggests the importance of dependable data that can be ...

There has been concern that medical schools admit the educational cream ofyoung enthusiastic inquisitive students and five years later produce doctors who are often bored and unquestioning.1-3 Medical schools need to examine the reasons for this. In the UK, the General Medical Council (GMC) report has made major directions about undergraduate medical education in general.4 While not dealing spe...

BACKGROUND Generally in continuing education medical education (CME) the most time is consumed for in the planning and preparation of the event. This planning and preparation, however, needs recognition through an evaluative process. The purpose of this study was to evaluate neurology CME in two educational methods, lecture vs task-based learning, using Patton's utilisation focused model. MET...

background: training provided in medical faculties is mainly composed of two phases: preclinical and clinical. preclinical period, or the first three years, consists of theoretical classes and practical implementations to develop vocational skills. in the clinical period, students are given applied courses. objectives: this study aimed to determine the role of demographic characteristics and me...

introduction: education is defined as an art with scientific principle. it is described as a form of learning by which knowledge, skills and attitudes of an age group are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, research and practice. method: this is a historical review about the philosophy of medical education and its changes during the time. results: it is unfor...