Success in academic medicine requires scientific and clinical aptitude and the ability to lead a team effectively. Although combined MD/PhD training programs invest considerably in the former, they often do not provide structured educational opportunities in leadership, especially as applied to investigative medicine. To fill a critical knowledge gap in physician-scientist training, the Vanderb...

BACKGROUND The concepts of evidence-based medicine are permeating all specialties, including family practice. This article describes a curriculum to teach residents the principles and practices of information mastery, a derivation of evidence-based medicine that is more relevant to family physicians. METHODS The curriculum is a 2-year longitudinal experience consisting mainly of didactic pres...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the importance of genitourinary medicine as a core component for a new problem based medical undergraduate curriculum and to describe the advantages of consensus group method as a means of identifying learning objectives for an integrated course. METHODS A group of experts in the field of sexual health was convened around the module on sexual health. It was led by a genit...

UNLABELLED Background: Interprofessional education is necessary to prepare students of the health professions for successful practice in today's health care environment. Because of its expertise in interdisciplinary practice and team-based care, palliative care should be leading the way in creating educational opportunities for students to learn the skills for team practice and provision of qua...

CONTEXT Little is known about the incorporation of integrative medicine (IM) and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) into family medicine residency programs. OBJECTIVE The Society for Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) approved a set of CAM/IM competencies for family medicine residencies. We hope to evaluate whether residency programs are implementing such competencies into their cur...

conclusions the levels of knowledge and skill among iranian physicians on major topics of sports and exercise medicine are low to medium. gps and interns are the first line of patient management so our findings suggest adding some sports medicine related topics into curriculum of medical doctors. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was performed in 2009 to determine the knowledge rega...

INTRODUCTION This is a qualitative study, to generate a framework for a core curriculum in General Practice in the undergraduate setting, designed specifically for Nepal. METHODS A Delphi process was used to involve representatives from the GP faculty in Institute of Medicine, BP Koirala institute BPKIHS, Patan Hospital/National Academy Medical Sciences and Tansen mission hospital. The Delphi...

OBJECTIVE To understand core curriculum design and involvement of stakeholders. METHODS Twelve homogeneous focus group interviews with a total of 88 students, house officers, senior doctors and nurses concerning an undergraduate emergency medicine curriculum. Following content coding of transcripts, we analysed by condensation, categorisation and qualitative content analyses. RESULTS The fo...

Leading any curriculum development is always difficult and challenging. A survey of former students and industry professionals is being performed that will help guide the changes necessary to keep our students gainfully employed. Too often, improvements to courses come not through industry experts, but instead through what faculty feel is the best approach, which may or may not be correct. This...