Medical education is a leading step in improving the quality of health services all over the world; in recent years such an important issue has changed tremendously. New concepts and theories were introduced particularly in undergraduate medical education [1], these may include beyond curriculum education and the concept of problem based learning (PBL) [2,3]. The latter was introduced by Barrow...

Objectives: The objective of this project was to develop and implement a seven module ambulatory care continuing medical education (CME) curriculum and to evaluate the effectiveness of this curriculum in facilitating patient safety. Methods: For knowledge transfer and adoption, each module focused on one safety concept, followed by clinical cases and take-home points. The dissemination strategy...

PURPOSE To describe community leaders' perceptions regarding the impact of a fully distributed undergraduate medical education program on a small, medically underserved host community. METHOD The authors conducted semistructured interviews in 2007 with 23 community leaders representing, collectively, the education, health, economic, media, and political sectors. They reinterviewed six partici...

Medical education in sub-Saharan Africa must be defined by its health needs and the health care services required. The sociodemographic milieu that determines the disease pattern makes a compelling case for primary health care in the context of community participation and multisector community development as the driver of a plan for medical education, in tandem with clinicians' role in continui...

Background and Objectives: Considering the importance of medical education quality in achieving a healthy community, there is a need for the development of valid and reliable tools for efficient measurement of quality of medical education services. SEVQUAL is a popular services quality measuring framework used in assessment of quality in various service sectors. The purpose of this study was to...

Background: By expressing strengths and weaknesses and their classification, the pathology helps managers in preventing them to provide superficial and simple solutions. Therefore, this research as a review deals with the pathology of the project of integrating the medical education system with health services in the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Methods: The data collection for thi...

INTRODUCTION Continuing medical education (CME) is important for professional development, to improve doctors' clinical performance that ultimately influences the quality of the health outcomes. In the presence of an increasing number of family physicians serve in the primary health care system upon graduation in Oman make us to consider the meta-cognition of the leaner and engaged them in lear...

After introductory comments and some words of caution regarding certain modern trends in medical education, I shall set down, as I see them, the items of prime importance in the education and character of those who aspire to high endeavor in medicine. Scripture tells us that the Lord spoke out of the whirlwind to his servant, Job, saying: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without kno...

Funding for graduate medical education (GME) and undergraduate medical education (UME) in the United States is being debated and challenged at the national and state levels as policy makers and educators question whether the multibillion dollar investment in medical education is succeeding in meeting the nation's health care needs. To address these concerns, the authors propose a novel all-paye...