Medical education beyond graduation: scientific initiation

Medical education beyond graduation: scientific initiation.

Medical teaching beyond graduation: undergraduate study groups.

Scholarships for scientific initiation encourage post-graduation degree.

This study aimed to evaluate the factors associated with the decision to attend an academic post-graduation program by dental students. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2012, last-year undergraduate students from Dental Schools of Southern Brazil. A closed questionnaire was applied including questions grouped in three different blocks: pre-graduate, undergraduate period and future persp...

Medical education ± beyond tomorrow ?

Against a background of the theoretical basis for the contextual approach to medical education, this paper examines and supports the changes that are occurring in undergraduate medical education throughout the world, before putting up for discussion the suggestion that the changes have not gone far enough. Consideration is given to a model of apprenticeship learning within undergraduate medical...

A survey of medical students' perceptions of the quality of their medical education upon graduation.

INTRODUCTION To evaluate the perceptions of the graduates of our medical school regarding the quality of their educational programme. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 183 questionnaires, each containing 262 questions, were completed anonymously by medical students upon their graduation from the medical school. RESULTS About 77% of the respondents felt that Basic Science courses lacked clini...