Time and Medical Education
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In this article, the author points to time as an essential dimension of medical education, the simple necessity of allowing enough time to meet educational standards. Aside from pure factual learning, students need to also learn judgmental and behavioral skills, and these take time. The students need to spend time with patients, and the faculty needs the time to teach in a thoughtful way. Unfortunately, time is the one factor which is disappearing from medical education, and the author warns that educators need the availability of adequate time as much as they need buildings, research funds, and laboratories.
Publication Name: Annals of Internal Medicine
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0003-4819
Year: 2000
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Instilling Professionalism in Medical Education
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It may be difficult but not impossible to teach medical students professional conduct in the era of managed care. One facet of professionalism is to place the needs of the client ahead of the self-interest of the practitioner. Managed care has undermined this concept by forcing doctors to place the needs of the managed care plan ahead of the patient. Many managed care organizations create strong financial incentives for physicians to restrict care. Doctors can teach professionalism by modeling it in their own behavior.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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Tobacco Dependence Curricula in US Undergraduate Medical Education
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Many medical schools do not provide students adequate instruction in smoking cessation techniques. Researcher surveyed the deans of 126 US medical schools and found that 70% did not require any training in smoking cessation techniques and 23.5% allowed students to take this training as an elective. Only 15% of the schools provided 3 or more hours of smoking cessation training in the third year and 5% provided 3 or more hours in the fourth year.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1999
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