T he major reasons fur participating in continuing medical education (CME) are to obtain new knowledge and skills, and to provide reassurance that present medical practice is still up to date.' The ideal educational offering to accomplish these goals should be directly relevant to patient care, convenient, inexpensive , practical, individually based, provide immediate benefit, and take a minimu...

Under graduate medical education aims at producing doctors who are competent in preventive, promotive and curative knowledge and skills. The community medicine curriculum in All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi has been designed with this objective in view. Students are given community oriented training in urban and rural settings whereby students are taught to carry out various a...

BACKGROUND Over recent years, wide ranging changes have occurred in undergraduate medical curricula with reduction of hours allocated for teaching anatomy. Anatomy forms the foundation of clinical practice. However, the challenge of acquiring sufficient anatomical knowledge in undergraduate medical education for safe and competent clinical practice remains. The purpose of this study is to ident...

Purpose: Teaching ultrasound procedures to undergraduates has recently been proposed to improve the quality of medical education. We address the impact of applying standardized dermatologic ultrasound teaching to our undergraduates. Materials and Methods: Medical students were offered an additional theoretical and practical seminar involving hands-on ultrasound dermatologic ultrasound during th...

BACKGROUND We evaluated a newly designed electronic portfolio (e-Portfolio) that provided quantitative evaluation of surgical skills. Medical students at the University of Seville used the e-Portfolio on a voluntary basis for evaluation of their performance in undergraduate surgical subjects. METHODS Our new web-based e-Portfolio was designed to evaluate surgical practical knowledge and skill...

Objective: To determine the eVectiveness of video role play with structured feedback in improving undergraduate communication skills and application of knowledge in genitourinary medicine. Design: A blind, randomised, controlled trial. Subjects and setting: Fourth year undergraduates attending a 5 week attachment in genitourinary medicine during 1997 at a London medical school. Intervention: A ...

Objective To determine which teaching method-otoscopy simulation (OS), web-based module (WM), or standard classroom instruction (SI)-produced the best improvement in the diagnosis of middle/external ear pathologies and the development of otoscopy clinical skills. Study Design Prospective randomized controlled nonclinical trial. Setting Preclerkship undergraduate medical education. Subjects and ...

Moreover, reading this paper led us to think about the wide range of partnerships that exist within medical education, not only university/patient partnerships in delivering clinical skills teaching, but university/healthcare partnerships in delivering undergraduate programmes, and clinician/academic partners in undertaking research, to name but a few. We wondered whether there were existing de...

Approaches to evaluation of medical student teaching programs have historically incorporated a range of methods and have had variable effectiveness. Such approaches are rarely comprehensive, typically evaluating only a component rather than the whole program, and are often episodic rather than continuous. There are growing pressures for significant improvement in academic program evaluation. Th...

BACKGROUND Information technology is finding an increasing role in the training of medical students. We compared information recall and student experience and preference after live lectures and video podcasts in undergraduate medical education. METHODS We performed a crossover randomised controlled trial. 100 students were randomised to live lecture or video podcast for one clinical topic. Li...