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| Title |
Medical education and the healthcare system - why does the curriculum need to be reformed?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medicine, November 2014
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12916-014-0213-3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gustavo A Quintero |
| Abstract |
Medical education has been the subject of ongoing debate since the early 1900s. The core of the discussion is about the importance of scientific knowledge on biological understanding at the expense of its social and humanistic characteristics. Unfortunately, reforms to the medical curriculum are still based on a biological vision of the health-illness process. In order to respond to the current needs of society, which is education's main objective, the learning processes of physicians and their instruction must change once again. The priority is the concept of the health-illness process that is primarily social and cultural, into which the biological and psychological aspects are inserted. A new curriculum has been developed that addresses a comprehensive instruction of the biological, psychological, social, and cultural (historical) aspects of medicine, with opportunities for students to acquire leadership, teamwork, and communication skills in order to introduce improvements into the healthcare systems where they work. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 11 | 42% |
| Italy | 2 | 8% |
| Timor-Leste | 1 | 4% |
| Spain | 1 | 4% |
| Kenya | 1 | 4% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 4% |
| Kuwait | 1 | 4% |
| Colombia | 1 | 4% |
| Greece | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 6 | 23% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 14 | 54% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 6 | 23% |
| Scientists | 4 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 2 | 8% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 174 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 173 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 20 | 11% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 10% |
| Researcher | 13 | 7% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 13 | 7% |
| Other | 57 | 33% |
| Unknown | 36 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 73 | 42% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 18 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 4 | 2% |
| Other | 20 | 11% |
| Unknown | 45 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 August 2015.
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#1,990,565
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Outputs from BMC Medicine
#1,334
of 3,508 outputs
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#24,120
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#34
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