The medical faculty at the Linköping University was established in 1970. Until 1986 the medical students spent their first two preclinical years in Uppsala and the last three and a half years in Linköping following a conventional medical curriculum. In the fall of 1986 the Health University (Faculty of Health ...

The teaching of oncology at Dalhousie medical school is currently left to the discretion of the 30 university departments. There is no central coordination. This organization leaves no monitoring of curriculum content to see that what should be covered is indeed covered, nor does it provide teaching from the perspective ...

This article focuses on a unique method of approaching medical education. It outlines the role of a service-based medical instructional resources unit within a three-year curriculum and emphasizes the consolidation of an instructional philosophy in one centralized learning resource center. This dynamic approach incorporates the evolving technological tools of communication ...

As the pace of curriculum reform in medical education has accelerated during the past decade, so too have demands on curriculum managers to supply increasingly detailed information about the curriculum. In response, a number of schools have joined together to begin work on designs for computer databases of the curriculum. ...

The dearth of philosophical contributions to medicine has recently been discussed in a series of articles in this journal. The present article focuses on physicians' lack of training in philosophy as a part of the explanation of the scarcity of works in philosophy of medicine. In section I I outline ...

The problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum, adopted by an increasing number of medical schools, requires retraining faculty for new roles as tutors with small groups of medical students. This study describes the procedures and results of four PBL training workshops (1989-1991) given at the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School ...

Resurgence of malaria in the country during seventies and subsequent implementation of Modified Plan of Operation (MPO) through Primary Health Care (PHC) system highlighted the urgent need for short term courses for PHC medical officers and clinicians at the periphery. In pursuance of these objectives. Dte. of National Malaria Eradication ...

When the University of Tromsø in northern Norway was founded in 1968, the region suffered from at serious lack of physicians and the health system was not efficient. It was believed that the establishment of a medical school would improve this situation. Half of the places would be reserved for ...

Physicians miss the diagnosis of substance abuse in significant numbers of patients, partly because of a lack of education about identifying and treating those patients. This article describes an attempt to integrate substance abuse into the curriculum of a traditionally organized medical school. Faculty selection, determination of the skills and ...

The use of animals in general medical education is essential. Although several adjuncts to the use of animals are available, none can completely replace the limited use of animals in the medical curriculum. Students should be made aware of an institution's policy on animal use in the curriculum before matriculation, ...

Dentists are entering complex diagnostic fields such as facial pain; carrying out advanced oral, periodontal, and maxillofacial procedures; and treating oral diseases by prescribing drugs with profound systemic effects. Concurrently, the population is living longer by taking multiple medications and undergoing sophisticated surgical procedures. The modern dentist requires more extrinsic ...

Child noncompliance with prescribed medical regimens, including nonacceptance of oral medication, frequently impedes medical treatment and achievement of clinical aims. During this study, we used a single-subject experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of a capsule-swallowing training curriculum specifically developed to promote acceptance of oral medication by multihandicapped children. Four ...

In 1989, an expert panel appointed by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine proposed minimum curricular content requirements for health promotion-disease prevention, including recommendations for timing, duration, and course sequencing during medical school. Making clinical preventive medicine an integral part of a primary care rotation is a central feature ...

In 1984, in addition to its standard traditional curriculum, Rush Medical College (Chicago, Ill) developed a Socratic problem-based method of teaching basic science material called the alternative curriculum. As part of an evaluation of this new curriculum, students in the two curricula were compared using three traditional measurements: (1) test ...

We developed a required, longitudinal course for first-year medical students that addressed the patient-doctor relationship. Our course linked understanding patients' experiences and perspectives on illness with listening to, talking with, and establishing a rapport with patients while obtaining their medical histories. Learning was enhanced by use of an interdisciplinary faculty ...

The evolving nature of medical knowledge and technology requires that the practitioners of tomorrow be able to develop practice management and computer skills in order to enhance quality patient care, ongoing education, and research. The paper describes how the discipline of medical informatics can be integrated into an undergraduate medical ...

The Primary Medical Care Group at the University of Southampton contributes to the medical curriculum in the first, third and final years. A visiting lecturer from Sweden took the opportunity to interview a sample of 20 final-year students using a qualitative approach. Questioning centered on the impact of the primary ...

Since 1989, a Certification in Medical Oncology is offered to ESMO members on the basis of their professional curriculum vitae and of their scores in a multiple choice examination. The first session took place in London, U.K., in September 1989, during ECCO 5. One hundred and twenty-five ESMO members were ...

A decade of experience with the oncology course offered within the second year pathophysiology curriculum at the Washington University School of Medicine is reviewed. The number of classroom hours allotted to this course has steadily decreased from 28 to 6 hours. Causes of this downward trend include the introduction of ...

We describe the development of a computer-based representation of the medical school curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH). Over the past seven years the Medical School's Office of Academic Affairs has employed both relational database and text management software to design an integrated curriculum database ...

To introduce the early diagnosis concept in oncology to medical students as early as possible in their curriculum, in the Cerrahpaşa Medical School, University of Istanbul, English-speaking section, weekly workshops were added to their regular courses in Record Taking and Differential Diagnosis in the third year (six-year curriculum). A different ...

The introduction and promotion of information technology in an established medical curriculum with existing academic and technical support structures poses a number of challenges. The UNC School of Medicine has developed the Taskforce on Educational Applications in Medicine (TEAM), to coordinate this effort. TEAM works as a confederation of existing ...

Considering the increasing need for medical students to acquire critical appraisal skills, we have reviewed the curriculum at McGill as to where and how this subject is taught. It is apparent that critical evaluation is covered formally and informally in the course of the four years of medical school. However, ...

This essay proposes reform of the preclinical curriculum which is seen as deficient in both content and method. The period of preclinical study should have a dual purpose: to provide a vocational training in basic scientific knowledge essential to good clinical practice, and to educate medical students in the methods ...

Medical ethics, medical jurisprudence, and medical economics are recognized as important components of a medical school curriculum. These subjects were introduced through a course given at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. Four aspects of the format and content of the course were instrumental to its success. Teaching ...

A new family practice residency curriculum in the format of the special requirements for residency training is proposed. This new curriculum consolidates the original principles of family practice with current developments in medical practice and changes in society. The emphasis is on increased flexibility, a competency-based curriculum, an extensive evaluation ...

The Society for Academic Emergency Medicine model curriculum for medical students and rotating residents was developed over a two-year period. The document was created as a complementary work to the undergraduate Core Content to provide appropriate emphasis, structure, and suggestions on the teaching of emergency medicine core curriculum topics at ...

As our knowledge of human biology becomes more complex and the medical school applicant pool declines, there is ample reason to consider an alternative to the conventional medical curriculum. Many authorities feel that a format incorporating problem-based learning (PBL) would be more appropriate and effective. The problem-based medical curriculum is ...

Medication administered through epidural catheters for control of acute and chronic pain is becoming a common practice in some hospitals. The care of epidural catheters usually is not included in basic nursing education curriculum. In settings where RNs will administer medication by this route or monitor patients receiving epidural medication, ...

In the Swiss Canton of Vaud, methadone treatment is mostly provided by the private medical practitioners. 562 opioid dependent persons followed at least one course of treatment between 1976 and 1986; at that time, 209 of them had completed a first course, 118 a second one and 31 a third ...

Medical psychology is to be understood both as an interdisciplinary science, orientated to the bio-psychosocial concept of illness as well as a basic medical attitude that encompasses the whole of a doctor's activity. In the curriculum the students must be provided with a medico-psychological training that is specific to individual ...

This article describes the use of the critical incident technique to define noncognitive behaviours, referred to as 'fitness and aptitude', that physicians should demonstrate in their practice. A total of 484 behaviours were categorized under four categories: attitude and personal attributes; communication; practice organization; and professional competence. Each category was ...

The medical curriculum in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) is regulated by federal legislation. Medical informatics is part of this curriculum and is therefore taught by all 27 medical faculties in the FRG, 24 of which have related departments. The teaching situation in general and the specific approach at ...

The New Zealand Cervical Cancer Inquiry has elicited considerable interest in Australia as well as in New Zealand. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the future practice of medicine with regard to the relevance of the Inquiry's findings for medical education, although it did recommend the incorporation of ...

This, then, is my vision of medical education in the next millennium: a deep and fruitful integration of basic science and clinical medicine; a gradual adaptation of the curriculum to reflect the realignment of scientific and clinical specialties; and a value system mandating that growth and expansion be immutably linked ...

Both the recent advances in molecular biology and the dilemma of teaching a larger volume of more detailed material to students from a declining, weaker applicant pool necessitate a critical reappraisal of the medical physiology curriculum and pedagogy. An extensive survey of the physiology curricula in 107 U.S. medical schools ...

A survey conducted among convenors of sociology courses in British medical schools showed a wide variation in course length, with two medical schools having no course, and two schools providing over 60 hours per year. A mean length of 32 hours was found, but there was considerable variation by region. ...

The information and technology explosions in medicine have exposed the vast realm of ignorance in human biology as well as the transiency of accepted knowledge and shortcomings of instructional methods which foster rote memorization, excessive reliance on conflicting data bases, and short-answer testing. To circumvent this serious deficiency in medical ...

The Canadian Association of Professors of Dermatology (CAPD) has approved new goals, objectives, and a core curriculum for Canadian undergraduate dermatology teaching. This followed a survey by mailed questionnaire of the 16 Canadian medical schools. The previous core curriculum approved by the Canadian Dermatological Association (CDA) was modified and received ...

Some of the factors facilitating and impeding educational development in an established and research-orientated medical school are briefly described. During the past 16 years, the Karolinska Institute has undergone a process of change from traditional forms of teaching and assessing, to more problem-orientated, integrated, and student-centered approaches. A new curriculum ...

Medical educators are an interesting group of people. They thrive on new knowledge. They get excited and enthusiastic, and readily adopt new ways when the evidence is sufficient. Yet, at the same time, they resist with great vehemence change in the way they do their business. Ask how often the ...

Mercer University School of Medicine was established in response to the shortage of primary care physicians in medically underserved Georgia. Originally patterned after the McMaster model of medical education, Mercer found it necessary to modify the three academic programs of the first 2 years of a 4-year undergraduate medical education ...

Five Southern California medical schools were examined using a case study approach. In-depth interviews were conducted with faculty members and administrators from Loma Linda University, the University of Southern California, and the University of California at Irvine, Los Angeles, and San Diego, Schools of Medicine. Using an interview instrument based ...

Numerous medical schools are beginning to plan single courses, separate curricular tracks, or entire curricula using problem-based, small-group methods. The use of these methods places a high demand on faculty members' time and support. In the present study, the authors examined the characteristics and beliefs of those faculty members who ...

A 45-hour medical Spanish curriculum for an emergency medicine residency program was implemented in response to a need for "functionally bilingual" physicians in our practice setting, and to reduce reliance on translation assistance from nursing and clerical personnel. Course goals were to achieve a vocabulary level of 5,000-10,000 words for ...

Decreased availability of hospitalized patients for medical student education, a changing clinical environment in both hospital and outpatient settings, and the need for teaching the specific skills of primary ambulatory care mandate the development of outpatient-based clinical clerkships. A required third-year clerkship at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine ...

Teaching in the ambulatory setting is important for medical educators because of the economic, social, and medical trends that are pushing patients into this health care setting. While medical education in the hospital setting maintains its important role, education in ambulatory care demands innovations and new strategies. A pilot program ...

Geriatric content in a medical school curriculum was assayed by surveying faculty course directors and students about course content, by conducting an independent review of course content, and by analyzing the content of course examinations. The students' assessments of geriatric content were found to be not valid. Considerable variability was ...

Paediatricians are probably the physicians best able to care for adolescents. However, in the RSA they tend to set the upper age limit of their patients at the early teens. This study compared the disease profile of paediatric medical admissions with that of adolescent medical admissions in a Third-World situation ...

We have attempted to identify those attitudes, skills, and competencies in the clinical neurosciences that every graduating medical student should possess. Curricular guidelines are provided that may act as a model educational outline, to be adapted and utilized as individual circumstances dictate and resources permit. A universal, although not lockstep, ...