Teaching Preventive Medicine to Undergraduate Medical Students

Teaching learning disability to undergraduate medical students

Teaching medical students to prioritize preventive services.

BACKGROUND Clinicians cannot provide all recommended preventive services in a single office visit and must learn to prioritize. This skill is not overtly addressed in medical school. METHODS We designed a workshop to teach third-year medical students to prioritize preventive services during an office visit. In a prospective controlled trial, we compared performance on a standardized patient c...

Teaching of genitourinary medicine (venereology) to undergraduate medical students in Britain.

Twenty-six medical schools in the United Kingdom have recently taken part in a survey on the teaching of genitourinary medicine (venereology) to undergraduates. Four of the schools were unable to run their own formal lecture courses and a further three could not offer clinical attachments. The mean number of lectures given per centre was six, clinic attendances 10 hours, and total teaching time...

Effectiveness of teaching evidence-based medicine to undergraduate medical students: a BEME systematic review.

BACKGROUND Despite the widespread teaching of evidence-based medicine (EBM) to medical students, the relevant literature has not been synthesized appropriately as to its value and effectiveness. AIM To systematically review the literature regarding the impact of teaching EBM to medical students on their EBM knowledge, attitudes, skills and behaviors. METHODS MEDLINE, SCOPUS, Web of science,...

Teaching cardiology to undergraduate students.

Modern cardiology is based on knowledge derived from several disciplines: Anatomy and embryology, physiology, pathology and bacteriology, pharmacology, physics, roentgenology, physical diagnosis, comparative biology, general medicine and surgery, pediatrics, and therapeutics. Psychiatry in all its aspects, public health, industrial organization, and social service, have multiple problems in com...