First Cut: Hesitance, Action, and Growth in Early Medical Education

Accreditation in Higher Education and Medical Education

Educational quality improvement and related standards have been considered widely by all of the countries specially those who are pioneer in this field and in last fifty years. Finding objective criteria to rank universities and supporting them financially is The main Reason of this consideration. To assure the quality of higher education, the accreditation has acted as an accepted approach a...

Early use of simulation in medical education.

An oft-cited belief that, until recently, simulators used in education of health care professionals were simple models is wrong. Hundreds of years ago and, in one instance, thousands of years ago, intricate models were used to help teach anatomy and physiology and in training in obstetrics and many surgical disciplines. Simulators were used to learn skills before performing them on patients and...

Medical education reimagined: a call to action.

The authors propose a new model for medical education based on the "flipped classroom" design. In this model, students would access brief (~10 minute) online videos to learn new concepts on their own time. The content could be viewed by the students as many times as necessary to master the knowledge in preparation for classroom time facilitated by expert faculty leading dynamic, interactive ses...

Medical education for the twenty-first century.

I T r WELL TO REMEMBER Til AT THERE IS NOTHI G IMMUTABLE ABOUT THE present structure of academic medical centers, whi h is not to ay that the sub tance of what they do will change, but their configuration may be different. All of you are familiar with the Flexner report and it impact on American medical education, so I will not repeat what you already know. But I would remind you of the prelude...

First World Conference on Medical Education