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BACKGROUND In recent years, education and training in global health has been the subject of recurring debate in many countries. However, in Germany, there has been no analysis of the educational needs or demands of medical students, or the educational deficits or potential benefits involved in global health education. Our purpose is to analyse international health elective patterns of medical s...

Understanding how medical malpractice occurs and is resolved is important to improving patient safety and preserving the viability of a physician's career in academic medicine. Every physician is likely to be sued by a patient, and how the physician responds can change his or her professional life. However, the principles of medical malpractice are rarely taught or addressed during residency tr...

BACKGROUND Advances in electronic technology have created opportunities for new instructional designs of medical curricula. OBJECTIVE We created and evaluated a 4-week online elective course for medical students to teach the cognitive basis for interviewing skills. METHODS Ten students, from 2 medical schools, studied online modules on interviewing concepts and viewed videos illustrating th...

In fall 2002, the ADEA Section on Comprehensive Care and General Dentistry conducted a survey of the predoctoral clinical curriculum models at sixty-four North American dental schools. Fifty-eight percent of the schools reported that most patient care is provided in a comprehensive care clinic setting, 22 percent reported that most patient care is provided in discipline-specific settings, and 2...

Educators in medical image interpretation have difficulty finding scientific evidence as to how they should design their instruction. We review and comment on 81 papers that investigated instructional design in medical image interpretation. We distinguish between studies that evaluated complete offline courses and curricula, studies that evaluated e-learning modules, and studies that evaluated ...

As we continue the series on education and training in pathology and laboratory medicine, a few common themes are beginning to emerge from this group of articles. First, interest in education and training is growing. Next, there is emerging evidence for the use of new approaches to education and training , several of which we have highlighted in this series. Last, but certainly not least, there...

BACKGROUND Gender issues are important to address during medical education, however research about the implementation of gender in medical curricula reports that there are obstacles. The aim of this study was to explore physician teachers' attitudes to gender issues. METHODS As part of a questionnaire, physician teachers at Umeå University in Sweden were given open-ended questions about expla...

AIM To investigate short-term effects of problem-based learning on students' scientific thinking, problem solving, and conflict resolution skills. METHODS The study was conducted in two medical schools, Ondokuz Mayis University in Samsun and Trakya University in Edirne, Turkey. The two schools used different instructional approaches in educational methods: Ondokuz Mayis University followed a ...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia has a significant paucity of available health-care workers. Despite the increasing number of medical schools, there are not enough physician instructors. Furthermore, availability and standardization of postgraduate training are lacking. Modalities of e-learning have been shown to be successful when used to impart medical education in other resource-limited countries. The Em...