Gastrointestinal Fellowship Education in Korea

Technology Education in Korea: Curriculum and Challenges

As a separate subject and a part of general education, technology education (TE) began to be offered to secondary students in Korea in 1970 under the name of kisul (literally, technology). While it has provided technological knowledge and capability, there have been issues and challenges in curriculum, instruction, and teacher education. This paper presents a brief history along with the status...

Medical education of north Korea.

Quality Assurance of Distance Education in Korea

In this paper, the five international e-learning issues were discussed. The five international elearning issues are accessibility for the disabled, intellectual property rights, wireless technology, learning object reusability, and quality assurance. After discussing the five issues, this paper presents a brief description about Korea and an overview of distance education in Korea. Despite onli...

Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders Diagnosed by Rome III Questionnaire in Korea

BACKGROUND/AIMS Rome criteria classifying functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) were updated. The aims of this study were to assess the spectra of FGID and to evaluate the applicability of Rome III criteria in Korea. METHODS New patients who visited 2 primary clinics and 2 tertiary care hospitals were consecutively invited to complete questionnaires. These consisted of questionnaires fo...

Implementation of problem-based learning in medical education in Korea

PURPOSE This study aims to identify how problem-based learning (PBL) has been implemented in Korean medical education, and how it is evaluated by each medical school. METHODS For this study, a total of 40 medical schools in Korea were surveyed via e-mail. The survey tool was a questionnaire consisting of 22 questions which was developed independently by the researchers. RESULTS Of the 40 me...