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 …

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) …

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 …

Community-based education refers to teaching health care personnel in the community or in
primary care hospital settings. In the early 20th century, Osler (1958), inventor of the clinical …

Whether by default or design, medical education is arriving at distributed sites.
Internationally, it has been recognized that rural and underserviced areas benefit little from a …

Summary. This article summarizes the findings of a survey investigating the extent to which
medical schools in the United Kingdom have developed community‐based undergraduate …

Teaching and learning in primary care and community settings is now a very common
aspect of most medical trainings, and there is a growing expertise and evidence base …

Background: Teaching Internal Medicine is mainly hospital-based. Chronic diseases are
treated mostly in community-based ambulatory care. This study describes our experience …

The amount of undergraduate medical education delivered in general practice is expanding
rapidly, both in the United Kingdom and internationally. There are a number of challenges …

Medical education–based predominantly in hospital environments, and with increasing
specialisation and a rapid turnover of patients who represent a narrow spectrum of health …