On medical education and upbringing sensibilities: revisiting Rubem Alves!

Roundtable: revisiting innovative leaders in medical education.

MEDICC Review: WHO defi nes social accountability of medical schools as the obligation to orient teaching, research and service activities to addressing the priority health needs of the communities they have a mandate to serve, defi ning those needs in collaboration with government, health service organizations, health professionals and the public.[1] How does this contribute to making universa...

Global Demands ON Medical Education

World action in medical education, notably the global programs of the World Federation for Medical Education, the Edinburgh Declaration of 1988 and the 1993 World Summit, has led to major curricular change in medical schools. For educational reform to result in improved health services of nations, an essential requirement is integration between the medical education system and the health care d...

Perspectives on medical education.

Accreditation in Higher Education and Medical Education

Educational quality improvement and related standards have been considered widely by all of the countries specially those who are pioneer in this field and in last fifty years. Finding objective criteria to rank universities and supporting them financially is The main Reason of this consideration. To assure the quality of higher education, the accreditation has acted as an accepted approach a...

Spas and sensibilities: Darwin at Malvern.

In 1842 when Captain Richard Claridge first described a new form of hydrotherapy to British patients' there were only two places in England that could be visited in order to see what the system offered.2 Ten years later, however, despite scandals about the dramatic death of at least one aristocratic patient,3 there were 24 water-cure establishments in Britain and Ireland, many of which were fam...