Introduction to the 2019 World Federation for Medical Education World Conference

World Federation for Medical Education perspectives on person-centered medicine

Since 1984 the WFME has conducted an “International Programme for the Reorientation of Medical Education”. An important cornerstone in this process was the Edinburgh declaration of 1988 [1], adopted by the World Health Assembly in 1989 [2]. In order to promote the programme and in keeping with its constitutional mandate, the WFME Executive Council in 1998 in a position paper launched its Progra...

First World Conference on Medical Education

Proceedings of the First World Conference on Medical Education

THIS volume contains the papers which were given at the First World Conference on Medical Education in London in August, 1953. English, French and Spanish were the official languages, and each paper is followed by summaries in each of these languages. Apart from the opening addresses by Sir Lionel Whitby on "The Challenge to Medical Education," by Sir Richard Livingstone on "What is Education?"...

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...

From Lisbon to the World...