Sexual medicine in the medical curriculum

The importance of laboratory medicine in the medical student curriculum.

The importance of laboratory medicine in the medical student curriculum T he objective data provided by laboratory medicine underpins clinical practice in the areas of diagnosis , prognosis, and therapy. Molinaro et al. reported that approximately '60 to 70% of medical decisions are based on laboratory results' (1). However, current literature states that medical education on laboratory testing...

Psychological medicine in the under-graduate medical curriculum.

PSYCHOLOGICAL Medicine has been a latecomer into the undergraduate medical curriculum the 'World over. Indeed, there are still many medical schools in developing countries where there are no formal departments of psychiatry, and where the subject is covered in a series of a dozen or so lecture-demonstrations. This late and often cursory reference to psychiatry has it's origins in a wider attitu...

Terror Medicine as Part of the Medical School Curriculum

Terror medicine, a field related to emergency and disaster medicine, focuses on medical issues ranging from preparedness to psychological manifestations specifically associated with terrorist attacks. Calls to teach aspects of the subject in American medical schools surged after the 2001 jetliner and anthrax attacks. Although the threat of terrorism persists, terror medicine is still addressed ...

little attention paid to laboratory medicine in medical school curriculum

PhD Curriculum For the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Program: A Qualitative Comparative Study in the Chinese and Iranian Medical Universities

Background: Recently, the traditional and complementary medicine has largely gained interest among scholars across the globe. Keeping pace with the on-going trend, the Iranian academia have provided the PhD course on Traditional Iranian Medicine. In this study, we attempted to perform a qualitative study, comparing the PhD curricula of the Chinese and Iranian traditional medicine in detail. Met...