Medical education
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'''Medical education''' is education related to the practice of being a [[medical doctor|medical practitioner]], either the initial training to become a [[Physician|doctor]] (i.e., [[medical school]] and [[internship (medical)|internship]]) or additional training thereafter (e.g., [[Residency (medicine)|residency]] and [[Fellowship (medicine)|fellowship]]).
Medical education and training varies considerably across the world. Various teaching methodologies have been utilised in medical education, which is an active area of educational research.
==Entry-level education==
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Entry-level medical education programs are tertiary-level courses undertaken at a [[medical school]]. Depending on jurisdiction and university, these may be either undergraduate-entry (most of Europe, India, China), or [[Graduate Entry Program|graduate-entry programs]] (mainly Australia and Canada), or [[second entry degree]]s (United States).
Generally, initial training is taken at [[medical school]]. Traditionally initial medical education is divided between ''preclinical'' and ''clinical'' studies. The former consists of the basic sciences such as [[anatomy]], [[physiology]], [[biochemistry]], [[pharmacology]], [[pathology]]. The latter consists of teaching in the various areas of clinical medicine such as [[internal medicine]], [[pediatrics]], [[obstetrics and gynecology]], [[psychiatry]], and [[surgery]]. Increasingly, however, medical programs are using systems-based curricula in which learning is integrated, and several institutions do this.
There has been a proliferation of programmes that combine medical training with research (MD PhD) or management programmes (MD MBA), although this has been criticised.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Dyrbye LN, Thomas MR, Natt N, Rohren CH|title=Prolonged delays for research training in medical school are associated with poorer subsequent clinical knowledge|journal=J Gen Intern Med|year=2007|pmid=17492473|doi=10.1007/s11606-007-0200-x|volume=22|pages=1101}}</ref>
==Post-graduate education==
Following completion of entry-level training, newly graduated doctors are often required to undertake a period of supervised practice before full registration is granted; this is most often of one year duration and may be referred to as "internship" or "provisional registration" or "[[Residency (medicine)|residency]]".
Further training in a particular field of medicine may be undertaken. In some jurisdictions this is commenced immediately following completion of entry-level training, whilst other jurisdictions require junior doctors to undertake generalist (unstreamed) training for a number of years before commencing specialisation.
==Example of medical education systems==
*[[Medical education in Australia]]
*[[Medical education in the United Kingdom]]
*[[Medical education in the United States]]
*[[Medical College (India)]]
*[[Medical education in Hong Kong]]
*[[Medical education in the Philippines]]
==See also==
*[[List of medical schools]]
*[[Clinical Skills Online]]
*[[Objective Structured Clinical Examination]]
*[[Validation of foreign studies and degrees]]
*[[Virtual patient|Virtual Patients]]
==References==
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