The chief complaint driven medical history: implications for medical education

The chief complaint driven medical history: implications for medical education

It is the purpose of this paper to present an approach to teaching a concise, focused method to obtain a medical history from patients in the Emergency Department. Diagnostic reasoning starts with the medical history. Nowhere is obtaining an accurate history more important than in the Emergency Department. Here the demand for a quick focused and effective assessment and presentation prompts som...

ED chief complaint categories for a medical student curriculum

BACKGROUND It is important to stimulate the interest of all medical students in emergency medicine to further its growth nationally and internationally. Students focused on other specialties can benefit from exposure to the more common, less acute problems seen in the emergency department (ED). AIMS We developed a categorization system for chief complaints (CC) in an academic ED fast track (F...

Implications of moral psychology for medical education

Implications for Medical Education in Iran

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A history of medical student debt: observations and implications for the future of medical education.

Over the last 50 years, medical student debt has become a problem of national importance, and obtaining medical education in the United States has become a loan-dependent, individual investment. Although this phenomenon must be understood in the general context of U.S. higher education as well as economic and social trends in late-20th-century America, the historical problem of medical student ...