Child and adolescent psychiatry is a relatively new subspeciality and it is only recently that its practitioners have started to examine the problems of teaching it on the under graduate curriculum. Questions about when it is best taught during the undergraduate years and what constitutes a core curriculum are still contentious. Indeed some psychiatrists have yet to be convinced that it should ...

BACKGROUND There is strong support for educating physicians in medical informatics, and the benefits of such education have been clearly identified. Despite this, North American medical schools do not routinely provide education in medical informatics. METHODS We conducted a qualitative study to identify issues facing the introduction of medical informatics into an undergraduate medical curri...

conclusions the levels of knowledge and skill among iranian physicians on major topics of sports and exercise medicine are low to medium. gps and interns are the first line of patient management so our findings suggest adding some sports medicine related topics into curriculum of medical doctors. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was performed in 2009 to determine the knowledge rega...

This paper represents a systematic evaluation of the Core Medical Training Curriculum in the UK. The authors critically review the curriculum from a medical education perspective based mainly on the medical education literature as well as their personal experience of this curriculum. They conclude in practical recommendations and suggestions which, if adopted, could improve the design and imple...

Medical ethics education, it has been said, has 'come of age' in recent years in terms of its formal inclusion in undergraduate medical curricula. This review article examines the background to its inclusion in undergraduate curricula and goes on to examine the consensus that has arisen on the design of ethics curricula, using Harden's curriculum and S.P.I.C.E.S models as templates. While there...

OBJECTIVE The overall objective of the project was to determine whether the current MD undergraduate curriculum at the University of British Columbia (UBC) met the minimum competencies in women's health according to available guidelines. METHODS Ovid and MEDLINE were searched for information on women's health topics in medical undergraduate curricula. The Association of Professors of Obstetri...

BACKGROUND All UK medical schools use primary care settings to deliver their undergraduate courses. However there is no national undergraduate curriculum for primary care and it is thought that the learning objectives of primary care teaching vary considerably between medical schools. AIM The overall aim was to establish what is being taught within and by primary care across UK medical school...

OBJECTIVE To study medical students' views about the quality of the teaching they receive during their undergraduate training, especially in terms of the hidden curriculum. DESIGN Semistructured interviews with individual students. SETTING One medical school in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS 36 undergraduate medical students, across all stages of their training, selected by random and q...

The importance of humanities in the medical curriculum is increasingly recognized. For example, in the United Kingdom, The General Medical Council (GMC), which is an independent body established under the Medical Act 1858 and responsible, among other things, for fostering good medical practice and promoting high standards of medical education, in its publication Tomorrow’s Doctors, encouraged i...