Teaching Professionalism in Postgraduate Medical Education

Teaching professionalism in undergraduate medical education.

CONTEXT There is a growing consensus among medical educators that to promote the professional development of medical students, schools of medicine should provide explicit learning experiences in professionalism. OBJECTIVE To determine whether and how schools of medicine were teaching professionalism in the 1998-1999 academic year. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A 2-stage survey was sent ...

The Non-University Teaching Hospital and Postgraduate Medical Education *

The evolution of postgraduate medical education has been a most interesting one. If one remembers that before 1900 it was quite possible for a person of average intelligence with a diligent attitude toward his work to encompass rather completely the known field of medicine and that since then increasing specialization has been necessary because of the rapidly broadening horizon of medicine, man...

Journal of Advances in Medical Education & Professionalism

Medical education is a new discipline whichstarted about 50 years ago. The pioneer of thisdiscipline was George Miller from the Universityof Chicago who suggested most of prominentmedical professionals have little or no knowledge ofpsychology of learning and advocated the validity ofpresent medical education in the world.He hypothesized that while very eminent and welltrained scientific oriente...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

Postgraduate Medical Education.