Web 2.0 technologies for undergraduate and postgraduate medical education: an online survey

Undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Canada.

An overview of medical education at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Canadian faculties of medicine is provided. Particular attention is focused on changes that have occurred in the 1990s and their effect on medical students and on educational programs. Also considered are the effects of reductions in the number of entry-level positions for residency training and the changes in...

Mentoring portfolio use in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.

AIM Mentoring is widely acknowledged as being crucial for portfolio learning. The aim of this study is to examine how mentoring portfolio use has been implemented in undergraduate and postgraduate settings. METHOD The results of interviews with six key persons involved in setting up portfolio use in medical education programmes were used to develop a questionnaire, which was administered to 3...

An overview of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Nepal and elsewhere.

Though Health Sciences education started in the country as far back as 1934, it was only in 1978 that the MBBS course was started. The first postgraduate (PG) course, which was started, was the MD in general practice, which was started in 1982. It is over the course of the last 22 years, and more specifically after 1993, that there has been a spurt in postgraduate (PG) education. The rapid incr...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

Academic postgraduate medical education -- an Oxford view.

Postgraduate medical education in the UK has gone through a maelstrom of change in the last 20 years; many components have disadvantaged clinical academic training in particular. In this article we summarise some of the changes and describe the advantages of the creation of a dedicated clinical academic graduate school as a response to these changes.