Medical Education Videos for the World

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...

MEDICAL EDUCATION Teaching paediatrics for the developing world

Many paediatricians have had the good fortune to spend some of their careers in the developing world. My own overseas experiences have convinced me that the most important contribution to health that can be made by expatriate workers is not by cure, but through education. Doctors have been criticised over the years for withholding their knowledge and skills from others, perhaps to maintain thei...

First World Conference on Medical Education

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...

The current medical education system in the world.

To contribute to the innovation of the medical education system in Japan, we visited 35 medical schools and 5 institutes in 12 countries of North America, Europe, Australia and Asia in 2008-2010 and observed the education system. We met the deans, medical education committee and administration affairs and discussed about the desirable education system. We also observed the facilities of medical...