Impressiveness in Medical Teaching

Beyond Open-endedness: Quantifying Impressiveness

This paper seeks to illuminate and quantify a feature of natural evolution that correlates to our sense of its intuitive greatness: Natural evolution evolves impressive artifacts. Within artificial life, abstractions aiming to capture what makes natural evolution so powerful often focus on the idea of openendedness, which relates to boundless diversity, complexity, or adaptation. However, creat...

Medical education and autonomy in teaching hospitals

Introduction. Despite the implementation of hospital autonomy in many developed (France, Denmark) and developing countries(Ghana, Zimbabwe, Kenya and Indonesia) since the early 1980s , relatively little research has been directed towards evaluating the experiences of these hospitals .Efficiency, equity, accountability and quality of care can be considered as four main evaluative criteria in ass...

Inquiry-based Teaching Method in Medical Education

Introduction: Effective teaching requires methods that can develop appropriate knowledge and skills in students. This study aimed to assess the effect of inquiry-based teaching method in medical education through reviewing the related literature. Methods: In this Narrative review study, using the keywords clinical education, inquiry-based teaching method and medical education, all articles publ...

Teaching nutrition in medical schools.

Teaching medical ethics.

At Southampton Medical School students in the third year of the course (the first clinical year) spend one morning a week in general practice. Discussion of patients' problems with students often encompasses ethical issues, and for some time we have been aware of our inability to provide any clear framework for an informed debate. Our students get some formal teaching in ethics, but not until t...