On his first day of medical school, Philip Devereaux learned from a tutor that his academic advisor was Dr. David Sackett. “Who is he?” Devereaux recalls asking. The tutor told him that Sackett was a famous clinical epidemiologist. But Devereaux had no interest in clinical epidemiology; he planned on returning home to Cape Breton and being a “real” doctor. “My first thought was: how am I going ...

prevention of coronary heart disease, mainly by reducing the levels of known risk factors in the population, remains a priority in public health. this cross-sectional study on randomly selected medical students during their internship was conducted from july 2001 to april 2002 in order to determine the prevalence of major coronary artery disease (cad) risk factors. this survey was done by filli...

background: medical education should be considered as a dynamic process. if necessary, the program should be changed. considering rapid advantages in the field of virology, it seems to be necessary to review and change the virology course of medical students. therefore we decided to analyze the view of iranian medical students of the quantity and quality of virology course. methods: medical stu...

introduction. in order to improve planning, educational methodology, and evaluation in medical education, well-proportioned, exact and prospective programs are needed. without doubt, the main changes in medical education programs have resulted from researches performed in this area during the last decades. revision of medical education in iran began by the cultural revolution council by order o...

Professional and accreditation organizations have endorsed medical ethics as a fundamental component of education for family medicine trainees. Yet various obstacles combine to work against the continuation of formal medical ethics education beyond medical school and into residency training. This article reviews the current consensus on the scope and objectives of medical ethics education in th...

Educators have recognized the need to apply evidence-based approaches to medical training. To do so, medical educators must have access to reliable evidence on the impact of educational interventions. This paper describes 5 methodologic challenges to performing systematic reviews of educational interventions for health care professionals: finding reports of medical education interventions, asse...

It was seventeen years ago that a set of ideas that had been evolving over the previous three decades became embodied in a unifying term: evidence-based medicine. It is impossible to think of medicine today without reference to evidence-based medicine: as of April 2007, there were 25,000 entries in MEDLINE, 1.24 million Google-identified hits on the Internet, and over 300 books on the topic in ...

The Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME) sponsored a symposium on the theme of Examining the Evidence with Regard to Character, Personality and Values in Medical School Selection which was held on October 14, 2013 at the University of Sheffield Medical School in the United Kingdom. I was invited to speak about credibility issues related to personality assessments in health prof...

A number of reports in the past decade have concluded that the medical education system must be reformed. These reports often call for the incorporation of new technologies into the educational process. One technology that has found its way into the medical educational environment is the personal computer. This essay critically examines the introduction of the personal computer into medical edu...