Teaching clinical reasoning to medical students

Teaching ethics to medical students.

While few would deny that some attention must be given to ethical issues as part of a medical student's education it has never been clear how this might be best achieved. And at the present time those who are battling with this problem have a further dilemma. On the one hand, the numbers of ethical issues that face the medical profession are increasing at a frightening rate, ranging as they do ...

Necessity Approach clinical reasoning in Medical education

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The Viewpoints of Clinical Faculty Members about Teaching Communication Skills to Medical Students

Introduction. The clinical competencies of a physician is usually judged based on his(her) communication skills. Teaching communication skills is one of the important subjects in medical education, whereas it has not been considered in medical education curriculum of the country. Due to the involvement of the faculty members in medical education system, their viewpoints concerning educational m...

Teaching the humanities to medical students.

The decoding of the human genome offers great promise for the understanding and treatment of chronic human diseases at the last frontier. There is a widely recognised hazard that an exaggerated emphasis on molecular reductionism may lead to the loss of the essential humanitarian instincts of young doctors. To counteract this danger it is now accepted by many leading figures of the medical estab...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students