'A wicked problem': does medical education produce better doctors?

Doctors' education: Sponsored medical tourism.

Bedside Teaching in Undergraduate Medical Education: Issues, Strategies, and New Models for Better Preparation of New Generation Doctors

Bedside teaching is a vital component of medical education. It is applicable to any situation where teaching is imparted in the presence of patients. In teaching in the patients’ presence, learners have the opportunities to use all of their senses and learn the humanistic aspect of medicine such as role modeling, which is vital but difficult to communicate in words. Unfortunately, bedside teach...

Psychiatry for tomorrow’s doctors: undergraduate medical education

Dual-Use Research as a Wicked Problem

The challenge of dual-use research in the life sciences emerged vividly in 2011 as scientists and policy-makers debated what to do about article manuscripts that described how to modify the H5N1 avian influenza virus so that it could spread between mammals (1, 2). Since H5N1 emerged in Southeast Asia in 2003, it has sickened 667 people and caused 393 human deaths, as well as the deaths of milli...

Continuing medical education, a nice problem☆

enabled access to up-to-date surgical materials. However, we oday, the medical degree certificate only gives new graduaes a permit to continue studying and improving themselves, ince it is impossible, over the six years of the course, to resent students with the vast amounts of material that make p the various medical specialties. This completion of training is done in a variety of ways and y a...