Academic and scientific education in medical curricula in the Netherlands: a programme director’s view
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چکیده
The role of scholar is one of the seven CanMEDS roles of the medical practitioner as described in the 2009 Framework for Undergraduate Medical Education in the Netherlands, adopted by all eight University Medical Centres (UMCs) [1]. In order to realize the desired competency level of ‘scholar’, academic and scientific training is an integral and substantial part of medical curricula [2]. We wish to share our reflections on the development of academic and scientific training in medical programmes, with emphasis on the undergraduate programme, triggered by rapidly expanding medical knowledge, and by the changing health care environment as described in the inspiring paper by Frenk et al. [3]. We address four basic questions regarding academic and scientific education: what, why, when and how.
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