Based on a model of industry support that aligns with the emerging performance-improvement approach to continuing medical education (CME), a call to action is made for the transformation of commercial support. Today, commercial support, like the CME profession, is linked largely to educational activities of far less value to patients than the model now emerging to address professional practice ...

OBJECTIVE 1. Selecting the key problems in medicine--I. Diagnostic problems, II. Didactic and training problems of medical education, III. Economical problems, IV. Communications technologies problems, V. Psychological problems, VI. Social problems, VII. Strategic problems. 2. Outline ways to optimal solution of these problems. METHODS Innovative intellectual approach to medical diagnostic de...

Although there is some published literature regarding choice of Pre-Registration House Officer posts and North American Residency programmes, there is a paucity of research relating to choice of FP. This study aims to ascertain the factors influencing final year medical students’ choice of FP. This has significance, not only for students, but for those co-ordinating both undergraduate medical e...

BACKGROUND As medical education develops into a varied and well-developed field of research, the issue of quality research anchored in or generating theory has gained increasing importance. Medical education researchers have been criticized of not connecting their work to relevant theory. This paper set out to analyse how researchers can connect to theory in medical education. The goal of this ...

Presently, there is a major initiative to rekindle the humanistic qualities in the practice of medicine. Although there have been many suggestions on ways to rejuvenate this initiative, it has not been a primary focus of graduate medical education until recently. Surgery residents are expected to maintain a high standard of ethical behavior; demonstrate a commitment to continuity of patient car...

Integrated learning is the need of the hour. We at Shifa College of Medicine switched to an integrated modular curriculum last year. In the present article, we describe our experience with the renal module in year 2 of a 5-yr undergraduate medical curriculum. A multidisciplinary renal modular team developed the relevant objectives, themes, and clinical cases. The learning strategies used were l...

This article reviews the use of constructivism in traditional brick-and-mortar classrooms, as opposed to the online learning environment. The applicability of constructivism to nursing education is discussed. The article concludes with recommendations for online nursing education programs, offering ways that constructivist methodologies can be applied to online distance education.

The vertiginous transformations of the contemporary societies have been raising questions concerning aspects of professional education. Such questions have been raised in a more and more incisive way. This debate gains a new shape when applied to health work, where theory and practice cannot be dissociated, and where the development of an integral vision of the human being and the amplification...

subject as well as in the new methods of its presentation. This is a problem very similar to that which has to be faced in the feld of medical education. There is a new and important job for universities in this matter. It is their business to collaborate with professional organisations of a variety of kinds as well as, in the field of teaching, with Local Authorities, to try to facilitate this...

Governments increasingly see education and, in particular, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) as having a key role to play in the economic success and social stability of a country. Corporate bodies, as consumers of skilled workers, are loud in articulating their need for trained staff as they search for new markets and increasing productivity. Individuals are becoming aware...