The purpose of this article is to give international readers an overview of the organisation, structure and curriculum, together with important advances and problems, of undergraduate medical education in Germany. Interest in medical education in Germany has been relatively low but has gained momentum with the new "Regulation of the Licensing of Doctors" which came into effect in 2003. Medical ...

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More than 100 years ago Abraham Flexner’s report changed medical education in the United States (USA) and consequently worldwide. He simply used a gold standard against which all medical schools at that time were measured (Cook et al., 2010). The report at that time was concerned mainly with undergraduate medical education. Since then medical education has developed immensely and flourished int...

PURPOSE The authors' primary goal was to provide a comprehensive and current review of the literature surrounding ethics education for medical students. Following this review, the authors summarize the deficits in the current literature and provide recommendations for future inquiries on medical ethics education. METHOD In 2004, the authors searched MEDLINE and PubMed using the following sear...

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...

There were 35,944 applicants for the 1984-1985 year in US medical schools. Of this number, 17,194 were accepted by at least one school. First-year enrollment equaled 16,992. Be-accepted by at least one school. First-year enrollment equaled 16,992. Because some students were repeating the first year, the number of first-time enrolled students was 16,459. This represents a decrease of 113 from th...

Medical education is at a crossroads. Although unique features exist at the undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education levels, shared aspects of all three levels are especially revealing, and form the basis for informed decision-making about the future of medical education.This paper describes some of the internal and external challenges confronting undergraduate medical education. Key i...

Public health competencies, especially as they relate to the management of chronic disease, will be of increasing importance to the global health-care workforce. The General Medical Council's recommendations on basic medical education have helped to entrench the position of public health and related disciplines. Tomorrow's Doctors has recently been updated. This article describes the indicative...

Pressures from students and teachers, from professional bodies, and from changes in the way health care is delivered are all forcing a rethink of how medical students should be taught. These pressures may be more intense in London but are not confined to it. The recommendation the Tomlinson report advocates that has been generally welcomed is for more investment in primary care in London. Gener...