different teaching methods favoured in the same medical school by successive staffs. The mark left by the teacher upon the student body has been studied with particular care by the authors, as also the changing balance between research and teaching programmes. For those unfamiliar with certain links between European and American pharmacology in the last century and the role played in recent yea...

BACKGROUND The approach to and delivery of medical student education has undergone significant change within the last decade. There has been a shift away from didactic lectures to small group tutorials, facilitated by clinicians. Anecdotally there is an impression that enthusiasm for teaching is waning. The aim of this qualitative study is to assess the current attitudes of consultants, across ...

T he aim of scholarship of teaching and learning can be simply stated as making transparent the process by which the educator has made learning possible. Schulman has extended this definition to include the essential aspects of professionalism, pragmatism and policy. Professionalism is the most important reason for engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning. In this aspect of scholars...

Background and aim: Gender medicine takes into account biological and social differences between men and women in terms of prevalence and course of disease, diagnosis and therapy. Medical students should be made aware of this in the early stages of medical education. However, there is hardly any teaching material currently available. This article presents the adaption and first use of the Germa...

OBJECTIVES To study the resources available and resources needed for ethics teaching to medical students in UK medical schools as required by the new GMC core curriculum. DESIGN A structured questionnaire was piloted and then circulated to deans of medical schools. SETTING All UK medical schools. RESULTS Eighteen out of 28 schools completed the questionnaire, the remainder either indicati...

introduction. the curriculum of every program is designed to achieve its goal. the educational objectives are the reflection of the students’ theoretical knowledge and the practical skills they have learnt during this period. the collection, the presentation and the evaluation of the program depend on the educational objectives. the anesthesia educational rotation has been conducted in shiraz m...

background: faculty members are the main sources of universities. determination and promotion of their competencies lead to the overall performance promotion of universities. faculty members’ teaching competencies have the greatest role in the improvement of education, research and universities social services quality. therefore, in order to investigate this issue more carefully, this study aim...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to improve communication skills and knowledge of bioethics of last year medical students doing clerkship and to evaluate the effectiveness of using workshops for this purpose from students’ point of view, in order to continue such programs in future. methods: after ethical approval for the study a two-day workshop on teaching effective communication s...

UNLABELLED The discussions about medical education in the public focus upon quantity. The quality of the teaching process isn't questioned. But the professionalization of medical education should start with a close look at bedside teaching because it is the core of training medical doctors. PATIENT-CENTERED TEACHING: German medical leicensure act (Approbationsordnung) defines the quality of med...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the current status of teaching on spirituality in medicine in UK medical schools and to establish if and how medical schools are preparing future doctors to identify patients' spiritual needs. METHODS We carried out a national questionnaire survey using a 2-part questionnaire. Section A contained questions relating to the quantity of teaching on spirituality and the t...