Embryology in the Medical Curriculum

Medical Embryology

Medical humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum.

The medical humanities have been introduced in medical curricula over the past 30 years in the western world. Having medical humanities in a medical school curriculum can nurture positive attitudes in the regular work of a clinician and contribute equally to personality development. Though substantial evidence in favour of a medical humanities curriculum may be lacking, the feedback is positive...

Trend of Recent Changes in Medical Education Curriculum in the World: The Location of Iranian Medical Education Curriculum

Introduction: Academic General Practitioner training program has begun in 18th century, although it has a long history initiated before Christ. This study is aimed at investigating the historical trend of GP training program from 1765 to 2011 and exploring influential factors inducing changes in the medical education curriculum. Finally, it is to analyze medical education curriculum in Iran wit...

Nutrition in the Medical Curriculum

There is a clear need for nutrition as a necessary component of education in medicine. The science of nutrition, with its basic and applied components, is very amenable to being introduced into the medical curriculum, both as a vertical as well as horizontal integrated course. Textbooks now emphasize the issue of malnutrition in hospital settings (the skeleton in the hospital closet), and the c...

The Medical Curriculum