Medical Education

Abstract

Course of study requirers to educate a legally qualified and licensed practitioner of medicine, concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, through the science of medicine and the applied practice of that science. Medical education and envisions the production of physicians sensitive to the health needs of their country, capable of ministering to those needs, and aware of the necessity of continuing their own education. It also develops the methods and objectives appropriate to the study of the still unknown factors that produce disease or favour well-being. Although there may be basic elements common to all, the details should vary from place to place and from time to time. Whatever forms the curriculum takes, ideally it will be flexible enough to allow modification as circumstances alter, and medical knowledge grows, and needs change. It therefore follows that the plan of education, the medical curriculum, should not be the same in all countries.

JCMCTA 2013; 24 (1):1-4