Medical education – historic perspective and future challenges

Undergraduate medical education: Thoughts on future challenges

BACKGROUND There is considerable uncertainty about the future of undergraduate medical education in the face of several important challenges. This paper highlights many of the complexities of the challenges facing medical school leadership today. DISCUSSION A major challenge facing medical education in the United States is the erosion of the clinical environment, the loss of clinical revenues...

Some Recent Developments and Future Challenges in Medical Education

Medical Education and Human Cloning Challenges

Introduction: Cloning technology has been strengthened a long human desire for eternal life. The possibility of human cloning is the new challenges in medical education and medical ethics. The present study discussed the different perspectives in this field. Methods: This study is a review article. Related books and some database such as SID, Irandoc, Elsevier, PubMed, Magiran were searched us...

Medical education: historical perspective.

W ith the evolution of the human race and its existence on earth, it is but natural that early man should have been plagued with disease. Our Vedic scriptures tell us that Brahma wrote the slokas in the Vedas. The Rig and Ather Vedas documented knowledge about medical and surgical diseases and their treatment. Subsequent followers such as Sage Agastya practised the healing arts then. The oral t...

Medical education: future-proof?

External site visits as part of the process of accreditation are an important aspect of quality control of medical education programmes. In 2011/2012 all medical schools (University Medical Centres, UMCs) in the Netherlands had such a visit. According to the accreditation system of the Netherlands and Flanders, accreditation has to be renewed every 6 years. The preparation of the site visit sta...