Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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To assess the status of basic science departments in academic health centers through a survey of department chairs. ⋯ This survey reveals certain profound and disconcerting changes in the basic science departments of U.S. medical school. More studies are needed to see whether these trends continue. Further downsizing and merging of the basic sciences should be avoided in order to preserve the quality of medical education for future physicians as well as the quality of health care in the United States.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
The effect of presentation order in clinical decision making.
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To investigate whether the incorporation of women's health into problem-based learning (PBL) cases affects students' tendency to identify learning issues related to women's health as they encounter patients in an ambulatory care setting. ⋯ The results suggest that PBL is an effective way to increase students' awareness of women's health issues in a primary care clinical setting. More studies are needed to define the effect of PBL on the kind of reading and learning students will do when they get to the clinical setting.
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To determine which of 33 topics academic deans identify as worthy of greater emphasis in medical curricula. Also, to assess the barriers to needed curricular changes. ⋯ Changes in health care delivery and an increasing generalist orientation are influencing academic deans' perspectives on needed curriculum changes, and there appears to be considerable support for medical school curricula that will foster a broader, more humanistic role for physicians.