Education, Medical
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The departmental chair in Western medicine: tale of the first and foremost. Historical vignette.

30 Oct 2009 The use of the term "chair" in medical literature probably started in the Late Middle Ages with the Italian anatomist Mondino de Liuzzi. History reveals the term's origin at Bologna, one of the oldest degree-granting universities in Europe. Nobody ... Read more...

Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry.

30 Oct 2009 Medical students often experience significant cognitive dissonance as they attempt to understand psychiatry. After the security of lab values and medical tests that characterize much of medical practice, the ambiguity of seemingly subjectively ... Read more...

Defining and describing medical learning communities: results of a national survey.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: To investigate what is meant by learning community in medical education and to identify the most important features of current medical education learning communities. METHOD: After a literature review, the authors surveyed academic deans of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Education, Medical'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The departmental chair in Western medicine: tale of the first and foremost. Historical vignette. 30 Oct 2009
• Using a Socratic dialogue to tackle thorny issues of psychiatry. 30 Oct 2009
• Defining and describing medical learning communities: results of a national survey. 30 Oct 2009
• Measuring motivational characteristics of courses: applying Keller's instructional materials motivation survey to a web-based course. 30 Oct 2009
• Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education. 30 Oct 2009
• Academic medicine should start at home. 30 Oct 2009
• Academic medicine as a bridge to peace: building Arab and Israeli cooperation. 30 Oct 2009
• How academic medicine can contribute to peace-building efforts worldwide. 30 Oct 2009
• Building a health-peace movement: academic medicine's role in generating solutions to global problems. 30 Oct 2009
• Commentary: The relationship status of digital media and professionalism: it's complicated. 30 Oct 2009
• The impact of pass/fail grading. 30 Oct 2009
• Back to the future: medical students can matter again. 30 Oct 2009
• Guidelines for bedside teaching. 30 Oct 2009
• The power of apology. 7 Oct 2009
• The role of global health in medical education at JABSOM. 29 Sep 2009
• The need for diversity in medical education: barriers to be broken. 29 Sep 2009
• Preparing professionals to serve in a reformed health care system. 29 Sep 2009
• Improving patient safety through training in non-technical skills. 21 Sep 2009
• Educating health care professionals to care for patients with disabilities. 21 Sep 2009
• Why medical educators may be failing at feedback. 21 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Education, Medical'

Definition: Use for general articles concerning medical education.

Descriptor UI: D004501

Alternative terms: Education, Medical; Medical Education;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.358.399;

Technical Notes: Manual 19.8.28, 30.7.4, 34.16; DF: EDUC MED