Teaching hospitals have been integral to the education of medical students and doctors for
centuries. For example, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh was built as part of a plan for …

Stresses the ability of primary care to retain its reputation for the provision of high quality
undergraduate training. Criticism on the quality of laboratory learning posed by hospital …

Medical students learn to become doctors in different settings: the university, on hospital
wards and in outpatient clinics, and in general practice and other community settings. Each …

• The new clinical teaching environments have shown the importance of developing
symbiotic relationships between universities and health services. Symbiotic clinical learning …

Medical schools are required to train the workforce needed to care for the population they
serve. In the UK, we are expected to produce more graduates choosing to be general …

Throughout the world, especially in developing countries where secondary care is less
important, there are many Ôcommunity orientated medical schoolsÕ where the curriculum is …

This edition of Medical Teacher brings to our attention another insightful article from the
Flinders University Rural Clinical School, led by Professor Paul Worley (Worley et al., 2004) …

In most preregistration medical courses, the bulk of clinical teaching is delivered by non-
academic teachers, many of whom work outside the traditional teaching hospitals and …

The report is based on a study which included scrutiny of the relevant medical education
research literature, analysis of faculty teaching material, and personal interviews with …

It is contended that change in the health services should be accompanied by a re-
examination of medical education. Changes in professional roles and practices, specialist …