Community Experience in Undergraduate Medical Training

Undergraduate training in occupational health at Kocaeli University Medical School: a Turkish experience.

Processes and conditions of production may produce unhealthy effects. Both must therefore be included in the education of health care personnel. Vocational training in occupational health at Kocaeli University Medical School, Turkey aims to demonstrate students that occupational health is a specific and important area of work within the context of primary health care. This research is a cross-s...

A survey validation of generic objectives for community-based education in undergraduate medical training.

INTRODUCTION A framework for the definition of generic objectives for community-based education (CBE) was developed for undergraduate medical programmes, particularly for developing countries. To probe the validity of the set of CBE objectives generated by this approach, opinions from a wider audience were sought. METHOD Questionnaires were sent to 72 medical schools in 36 developing countrie...

Training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools.

Validity of final examinations in undergraduate medical training

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Teaching and Assessing Communication Skills in Medical Undergraduate Training.

Good communication skills are essential for an optimal doctor-patient relationship, and also contribute to improved health outcomes. Although the need for training in communication skills is stated as a requirement in the 1997 Graduate Medical Education Regulations of the Medical Council of India, formal training in these skills has been fragmentary and non-uniform in most Indian curricula. The...