OBJECTIVES To describe the evaluation of a nursing home medical directorship curriculum for geriatric medicine fellows. DESIGN Six first-year geriatric medicine fellows from the University of Hawaii program participated in this educational intervention. INTERVENTION A medical directorship curriculum based on the American Medical Directors Association's description of the roles and responsib...

The importance of humanities in the medical curriculum is increasingly recognized. For example, in the United Kingdom, The General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent body established under the Medical Act 1858 and responsible, among other things, for fostering good medical practice and promoting high standards of medical education, in its publication Tomorrow’s Doctors, encouraged i...

INTRODUCTION Making substantial changes to the form and delivery of medical education is challenging. One reason for this may be misalignment between existing conceptualizations of curricula and curriculum reform in medical education, with the former perceived as 'complex' yet the latter as linear. Reframing curriculum reform as a process-driven, complex entity may enhance the possibility of ch...

Objective The first course of the medical curriculum at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, From the Person to the Professional: Challenges, Privileges and Responsibilities, provides an innovative early clinical immersion. The course content specific to the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) curriculum was developed using the New York State Emergency Medical Technician curriculum. S...

The subject of professionalism has received much attention in recent literature, and in the United States is listed in both the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) standards1-4 and the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)5 clinical competencies as an essential component of pre-and postgraduate medical education. While definitions and assessment methods for profe...

Cendan J, Lok B. The use of virtual patients in medical school curricula. Adv Physiol Educ 36: 48–53, 2012; doi:10.1152/advan.00054.2011.—The demonstration of patient-based cases using automated technology [virtual patients (VPs)] has been available to health science educators for a number of decades. Despite the promise of VPs as an easily accessible and moldable platform, their widespread acc...

Introduction The decline in numbers of medically trained doctors performing research in recent decades has been widely discussed in the literature. The importance of engaging medical students with research and inspiring them to pursue academic careers is recognized as key in reversing the decline. Many medical schools offer opportunities for research participation, either as elective or compuls...

Integrating pharmacology education into a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum has proven challenging for many medical schools, including the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine (Penn State COM). In response to pharmacology content gaps in its PBL-intensive curriculum, Penn State COM in 2003 hired a director of medical pharmacology instruction to oversee efforts to improve the ...

Medical Director, State of Wisconsin USA As the Medical Director of Emergency Medical Services for the State of Wisconsin, I feel compelled to share the results of our review of the new [U.S.]National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)-sponsored Curriculum for the training of Paramedic-level emergency medical technicians (EMT-P). A Committee of nurse and physician educators from each...

Background There is currently no gold standard for delivery of systems-based practice in medical education, and it is challenging to incorporate into medical education. Health systems competence requires physicians to understand patient care within the broader health care system and is vital to improving the quality of care clinicians provide. We describe a health systems curriculum that utiliz...