background: in the recent years, new medical technologies and their probable misusing have emerged public concerns about medical ethics. medical ethics is a practical discipline that provides a structured approach for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues in clinical medicine. methods: in this study we reviewed some new methods of teaching medical ethics in other countries by sea...

Korea has kept the heritage of Korean traditional medicine (KM) during the 19th century harsh modernization, and has established a medical system in parallel with Western medicine. The purpose of this study was to review systematically the history and current system for educating highly qualified traditional medical doctors in Korea. KM produces 750 certified medical doctors every year with a 4...

background: recently, the traditional and complementary medicine has largely gained interest among scholars across the globe. keeping pace with the on-going trend, the iranian academia have provided the phd course on traditional iranian medicine. in this study, we attempted to perform a qualitative study, comparing the phd curricula of the chinese and iranian traditional medicine in detail. met...

Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine launched the Bachelors of Science in Public Health (BSPH) in 2005. The BSPH has steadily grown and comprises one-third of the total enrollment in the school. A review of the organizational structure demonstrates that direct responsibility for undergraduate education by a school of public health is advantageous to the success of the...

This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey (DHS I) data to investigate the influence of education upon use of traditional contraceptive methods. Traditional methods include periodic abstinence (rhythm), withdrawal, and country-specific folk methods. Bivariate analysis shows that as education increases, so does the use of traditional contraception in all nine countries. However, controlling f...

Public health technical expertise is of crucial importance to inform decision makers' action in the field of health and its broader determinants. Improving education and training of public health professionals for both practice and research is the starting point to strengthen the role of public health so that current health challenges can be efficiently tackled. At the Association of Schools of...

Graduate Entry Medicine (GEM) provides both challenges and opportunities for students and teachers alike. These are global issues for Ireland and the UK which are gaining in momentum and synergy with medical education in the USA. They provide an important chance to revisit the tenets of a good doctor and how best to select students for training from an enormous pool of potential applicants. In ...

Background. In Korea, a few studies regarding traditional Korean medicine (TKM) education have been conducted. The aim of this study is to evaluate students' perceptions regarding TKM education in Korea and compare them with those of other countries using a quantitative scale, Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM). Materials and Methods. We conducted a survey using DREEM in a TKM...