Teaching 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 ...

Teaching Medical Students, what do Consultants think?

BACKGROUND The approach to and delivery of medical student education has undergone significant change within the last decade. There has been a shift away from didactic lectures to small group tutorials, facilitated by clinicians. Anecdotally there is an impression that enthusiasm for teaching is waning. The aim of this qualitative study is to assess the current attitudes of consultants, across ...

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 medical students trigger point techniques.

Many of the products recommended by the herbalistas in this sample are not commonly available in US grocery stores. Other studies of herbal remedies used by Latinos reported more commonly available products in the United States, such as chamomile, ginseng, ginkgo biloba, aloe vera, mint, garlic, lavender, and ginger. There are several limitations to this study. Although the themes identified by...

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students