Background: Emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. Evaluation Methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. Methods: The aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

BACKGROUND The basic purpose of medical schools is to educate physicians to care for the national population. Fulfilling this goal requires an adequate number of primary care physicians, adequate distribution of physicians to underserved areas, and a sufficient number of minority physicians in the workforce. OBJECTIVE To develop a metric called the social mission score to evaluate medical sch...

267 According to the Association of American Medical Colleges (2007), the numbers of people diagnosed and living with cancer will rise by 81% by 2020, yet the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) released a report projecting a serious shortfall of trained oncology specialists by 2020 (Association of American Medical Colleges). Visit demands are projected to grow at a much quicker pace t...

BACKGROUND The stigma attached to mental illness in the West is now well recognised. There is however, only limited information available on this topic from the developing countries. Measurement of stigma among medical students and doctors is straightforward to carry out allowing targeted work to educate doctors in countries with few resources. This study was carried out to assess the attitude ...

T article presents basic data about the 20 colleges of osteopathic medicine for the 2003–2004 academic year. Information in this article has been adapted from the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)/American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Annual Osteopathic Medical School Questionnaire for the 2003–2004 academic year, fiscal year (FY) 2002, and the 2004–2005 AACOM Tu...

The study examined the influence of the Pond Report on the teaching of medical ethics in the London medical schools. A questionnaire was given to both medical students and college officers. All medical colleges reported that ethics was included in the curriculum. However, from students' replies, it seems that attendance of optional courses is low and that not all current final year medical stud...

Laboratory of Cell Biochemistry and Gene Regulation, Colleges of Medical Bioengineering and Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Chongqing, No. 174 Shazheng Street, Shapingba District 400044, China; The James Hutton Institute, Scottish Crop Research Institute, Invergowrie, Dundee DD2 5DA, Scotland, UK; Division of Cancer Research, Medical Research Institute, Ninewells Hospital & Medical Scho...

M education has been a subject of the highest concern to all the people as it produces excellent doctors who serve the people. Critics’ remark say that the current medical education system has not served well, the general standards of the medical graduates who pass out of our medical colleges in Nepal is low as compared to international standards, both in skill and in knowledge. Everybody talks...

BACKGROUND The progress test was initiated by Qassim University in 2000 as a tool to evaluate the educational process among Saudi medical colleges. Princess Nourah Bint Abdul Rahman University (PNU) College of Medicine is a new medical college established in 2012 that implemented the same innovative reformed curriculum of King Saud University College of Medicine. OBJECTIVES The objective of t...

DEAR EDITOR, The member countries of the World Health Organization recognize the health for all as a national goal and contemplate that medical education will produce competent physicians toward meeting this goal. However, the medical education and health‐care in most of the developing nations are facing the serious challenges both in content and in competencies. The burden of diseases across t...