The traditional, subject-based medical curriculum in Colombia has been mainly focused on the biomedical model proposed by Flexner in 1910. This means learning outcomes or competences are framed on curative care and the specialization of physicians ...
Gustavo-Adolfo Quintero +3 more
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Medical student selection process enhanced by improving selection algorithms and changing the focus of interviews in Australia: a descriptive study [PDF]
Purpose The study investigates the efficacy of new features introduced to the selection process for medical school at the University of New South Wales, Australia: (1) considering the relative ranks rather than scores of the Undergraduate Medicine and ...
Boaz Shulruf +2 more
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Historical High Complexity Neurosurgery Development of One of the Poorest Brazilian Regions
Human development rates in the Vale do Jequitinhonha, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, called “Misery Valley,” are among the lowest in the country, not to mention the often precarious psychosocial realities that daily contact with these families reveals ...
Silvio Pereira Ramos Junior +4 more
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Exploration of examinees’ traits that affect the score of Korean Medical Licensing Examination [PDF]
Purpose: It aims to identify the effect of five variables to score of the Korean Medical Licensing Examinations (KMLE) for three consecutive years from 2011 to 2013.
Mi Kyoung Yim
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Profile and Career Decisions of First Year Medical Students Studying at a College Located in western India [PDF]
Introduction:The attitude of the students and the reasons for choosing a career, medicine in particular are of importance as input for educators to create a medical graduate.Objectives:To get an account of medical students’ reasons for choosing medicine ...
Shobha Misra , Nilesh Fichadiya
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Medical education on fitness to drive : a survey of all UK medical schools [PDF]
Aim: To identify the extent to which medical aspects of fitness to drive (FTD) are taught within UK medical schools. Methods: A survey of all 32 UK medical schools.
Galbraith, N. D. +2 more
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Pain medicine content, teaching and assessment in medical school curricula in Australia and New Zealand [PDF]
Background: The objective of pain medicine education is to provide medical students with opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and professional attitudes that will lead to their becoming safe, capable, and compassionate medical practitioners ...
Bate, Frank +4 more
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The impact of socially accountable health professional education: Systematic review
Medical education is socially responsible for a global educational movement that transforms the development and presentation of medical schools in higher education.
Soheila Mahdavynia +7 more
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Business schools inside the academy: What are the prospects for interdepartmental research collaboration? [PDF]
Established literature about the role of business schools tends towards more parochial concerns, such as their need for a more pluralist and socially reflexive mode of knowledge production (Starkey and Tiratsoo 2007; Starkey et al 2009) or the failure of
Currie, Graeme +3 more
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National Competency Frameworks for Medical Graduates: Is it Time for the “Sudanmeds”?
Competency-based medical education has emerged recently as a novel model of medical training driven by its ability to reconcile the desired attributes in future physicians and address the overarching and demanding issues of the discipline in this century.
Ahmad AbdulAzeem Abdullah
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