Nutrition in the undergraduate medical curriculum

Medical humanities in the undergraduate medical curriculum.

The medical humanities have been introduced in medical curricula over the past 30 years in the western world. Having medical humanities in a medical school curriculum can nurture positive attitudes in the regular work of a clinician and contribute equally to personality development. Though substantial evidence in favour of a medical humanities curriculum may be lacking, the feedback is positive...

Nutrition in the Medical Curriculum

There is a clear need for nutrition as a necessary component of education in medicine. The science of nutrition, with its basic and applied components, is very amenable to being introduced into the medical curriculum, both as a vertical as well as horizontal integrated course. Textbooks now emphasize the issue of malnutrition in hospital settings (the skeleton in the hospital closet), and the c...

Nutrition education in the undergraduate medical curriculum at the Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.

Integrating medical simulation programs into the Turkish undergraduate medical curriculum

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Patient safety in the undergraduate curriculum: medical students' perception.

OBJECTIVE Patient safety has emerged as a distinct health care discipline and an undergraduate programme on patient safety is being introduced at the authors' institution. The present study aimed to assess medical students' perceptions and knowledge on patient safety issues. DESIGN A self-administered voluntary questionnaire survey. SETTING Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of...