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Essential Anatomy for Core Clerkships: A Clinical Perspective
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Keim, Sarah A.; Harmon, Derek J.; Martindale, James R.; Lopez, Elisabeth N.; Sanky, Charles; Brooks, William S.; Cotter, Meghan M.; Davies, David L.; Doroudi, Majid; Fahl, Jeffrey C.; Farias, Anna; Granite, Guinevere; Harrell, Kelly M.; Kar, Rekha; Kramer, Kenneth L.; Jackson, Jon; Jones, Shiloh; Lackey-Cornelison, Wendy; Laitman, Jeffrey T.; Latacha, Kimberly; Lewis, Steven R.; Lovejoy Mork, Amy; Marzban, Hassan; McNary, Thomas G.; McWhorter, David L.; Merchant, Aftab; Mussell, Jason C.; Quinn, Melissa M.; Reidenberg, Joy S.; Royer, Danielle; Sakaguchi, Alan; Sawyer, F. Kip; Topping, Daniel B.; Wainman, Bruce; Wineski, Lawrence E.; Zumwalt, Ann C.; Hankin, Mark H. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Clerkships are defining experiences for medical students in which students integrate basic science knowledge with clinical information as they gain experience in diagnosing and treating patients in a variety of clinical settings. Among the basic sciences, there is broad agreement that anatomy is foundational for medical practice. Unfortunately,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Medical Students, Clinical Experience
Core Goals and Objectives of the University of Connecticut School of Medicine: The Product and the Process.
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Gjerde, Craig L.; Sheehan, T. Joseph – 1975
The final report of the University of Connecticut Health Center curriculum project entitled "A Data-Based Approval to Developing a Curriculum" is presented. The aims of the project were these: (1) to develop procedures for judging and cross-judging the goals and objectives of undergraduate medical education; (2) to implement these…
Descriptors: College Administration, Committees, Core Curriculum, Educational Objectives
A Comparison of Students' Clinical Experience in Family Medicine and Traditional Clerkships.
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Parkerson, George R., Jr.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1984
Experience on the traditional internal medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics-gynecology, and psychiatry clerkships was compared with the experience on a family medicine clerkship. The family medicine clerkship offered the most experience with circulatory, respiratory, digestive, neurological, musculoskeletal, and skin problems and with…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Comparative Analysis, Family Practice (Medicine), Gynecology
Specialty Choices of Kuwaiti Medical Graduates during the Last Three Decades
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Al-Jarallah, Khaled F.; Moussa, Mohamed A. A. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2003
Introduction: This study examined postgraduate specialty training of Kuwaiti medical graduates during 1968 to 1999 and identified their attained professional qualifications to reveal scarcity in some specialties. Method: A survey was carried out involving review of the records maintained at the Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surgery, Specialization, Qualifications
Rotating Interns' Images of Practitioners of Five Medical Specialties.
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Sangal, Rahul – Journal of Medical Education, 1979
A study of rotating interns' images of medical practitioners focuses on what images the interns have of obstetrician-gynecologists, pediatricians, internists, psychiatrists, and surgeons, and seeks to determine whether these images differ according to choice of specialty for postgraduate work. (JMD)
Descriptors: Career Choice, Enrollment Influences, Graduate Medical Education, Graduate Medical Students
Comparison of Support Services Offered by Residencies in Six Specialties, 1979-80 and 1988-89.
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Kahn, Norman B., Jr.; Addison, Richard B. – Academic Medicine, 1992
A study investigated the availability of each of 19 medical school support services offered by 493 residencies in 6 specialties: family practice; internal medicine; obstetrics/gynecology; pediatrics; psychiatry; and surgery. Results show many specialties do not offer common, effective support services. It is suggested that programs move to…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Comparative Analysis, Family Practice (Medicine), Graduate Medical Education
Effect of History of Psychological Counseling on Selection of Applicants for Residencies.
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Oppenheimer, Kim; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1987
A study of the extent to which a residency applicant's history of having received psychological counseling for stress-related problems influences residency program directors' perceptions of such an applicant found differing practices and attitudes in different specializations and toward males and females. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, Counseling, Family Practice (Medicine)
Milestones in Health and Medicine.
Harding, Anne S. – 2000
This book includes more than 500 entries describing advances in the treatment of disease and the understanding of human health. The emphasis is on significant advances in diseases, treatments, and health issues. Topics included are: alternative or nonwestern medicine; anesthesia and analgesia; antibiotics; cancer; cell biology and physiology;…
Descriptors: Anesthesiology, Cancer, Clinical Diagnosis, Cytology
Undergraduate Medical Education and the Elective System: Experience with the Duke Curriculum, 1966-75.
Gifford, James F., Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1978
In view of increased public demand since 1965 for medical curriculum re-evaluation, the Duke University School of Medicine offered the first new model of medical education responsive to social pressures for change. The new Duke curriculum included presentation by each basic science department of the core of principles and information considered…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Anatomy, Behavioral Sciences, Biochemistry