OBJECTIVE To explore the fourth year medical student's knowledge regarding anaesthesia as a specialty, their attitude towards anaesthesia as a career choice and the effect of clinical clerkship on these. METHODS This survey was conducted in the Department of Anaesthesia of a university medical centre in a developing country. One hundred and fifty year four medical students rotating in anaesth...

In recent years medical educators have explored a number of educational techniques in an effort to improve current teaching practices. Introduction of clinical clerkships a number of years ago provided an opportunity for greater individualization of student experience during the third and fourth years. Instead of attending formal didactic lectures and demonstrations, the student was given the r...

quality of clinical education for medical students has always been a concern in academic medicine. this concern has increased in today’s time-squeeze while faculty members have to fulfill their complementary roles as a teacher, researcher, and practitioner. one of the strategies for program evaluation is obtaining trainees’ feedbacks since they are the main customers of educational programs; ho...

BACKGROUND In keeping with its mission to produce doctors for rural and regional Australia, the University of Wollongong, Graduate School of Medicine has established an innovative model of clinical education. This includes a 12-month integrated community-based clerkship in a regional or rural setting, offering senior students longitudinal participation in a 'community of practice' with access t...

a Departamento de Farmacología, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkaia, Spain b Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Spain c Instituto de Investigación Biocruces, Baracaldo, Bizkaia, Spain d Departamento de Especialidades Médico-Quirúrgicas, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, UPV/EHU, Leioa, Bizkai...

1 Comité Institucional de Ética en Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas. Lima, Perú. 2 Departamento de Oncología Médica, Departamento de Investigación, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas. Lima, Perú. 3 Liga Peruana de Lucha contra el Cáncer. Lima, Perú. 4 Radioncología, AUNA. Lima, Perú. a Químico farmacéutico; b Médico oncólogo clínico, magíster en Genética...