Medical teacher
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Junior doctors are amongst the first healthcare professionals to assess and provide initial hospital care for multiply injured patients. Despite this, no requirements are placed upon UK medical schools for training undergraduates in aspects of trauma care. Medical students have increasingly been attending a number of student-organised extracurricular 'trauma conferences' in order to supplement their knowledge in this area. ⋯ Students report a paucity of teaching in trauma medicine. Our findings corroborate previous concerns that junior doctors are under-prepared for managing trauma patients, and support the repeated calls made in the scientific literature to include organised teaching of trauma medicine in the undergraduate curriculum.
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Undergraduate medical education in Sweden has moved from nationally regulated, subject-based courses to programmes integrated either around organ systems or physiological and patho-physiological processes, or organised around basic medical science in conjunction with clinical specialities, with individual profiles at the seven medical schools. The national regulations are restricted to overall academic and professional outcomes. The 5½ year long university undergraduate curriculum is followed by a mandatory 18 months internship, delivered by the County Councils. ⋯ Ongoing academic development of undergraduate education is strengthened by the Bologna process. It includes outcome (competence)-based curricula, university Masters level complying with international standards, progression of competence throughout the curriculum, student directed learning, active participation and roles in practical clinical education and a national assessment model to assure professional competence. In the near future, the dimensioning of Swedish undergraduate education is likely to be decided more by international demands and aspects of quality than by national demands for doctors.