Medical Schools: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
Sun Kim (Editor)
Series: Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World
BISAC: EDU015000
Details
Medical Schools: Past, Present and Future Perspectives opens with a focus on the study of anatomy, the foundation of any medical education. Advances in technology involving radiological imaging, touch-based computer programs, and virtual anatomy laboratories have been adopted to provide students with large amounts of less costly, more widely accessible and more rapidly retrievable anatomical data.
Following this, the authors discuss medical education in India from its beginnings in informal schools to today, where institutes of medical sciences are being set up in different parts of the country without the necessary preparatory work.
A comprehensive framework for institutions aiming to improve academic support for struggling students is provided. Medical school is known to be academically demanding and resource intensive, and some students are at higher risk for struggling based on their background, as well as educational or demographic factors.
The closing study explores cinemeducation, an approach that uses film and TV as complementary tools to illustrate concepts and stimulate discussion about humanistic perspectives of medicine. Many health sciences students watch TV medical dramas and films about medical issues, and they remember the portrayal of medical professionals and their relationships with patients and one another, as well as the ethical dilemmas these characters face in their work.
(Imprint: Nova)
Preface
Chapter 1. Anatomical Education through the Ages: A Discipline in Transition
(Andrea H. Boerkamp, MD, Jodie Trautman, MD, and Steven Craig, MD, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia)
Chapter 2. Medical Education in India: Past, Present and Future Perspectives
(Sunil K. Pandya, Department of Neurosurgery, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
Chapter 3. Academic Support Systems in Undergraduate Medical Education
(Thomas John and Marjorie E. Bateman, MD, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, US)
Chapter 4. The University Goes to the Movies: Our Experience Using Feature Films and TV Series in Teaching Health Sciences Students
(Irene Cambra-Badii and Josep-Eladi Baños, Chair of Bioethics, University of Vic-Central University of Catalonia, Vic, Catalonia, Spain, and others)
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