Monday 4 June 2012

Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal Issues:World Medical Association Declaration–WMA 5th World Conference on Medical Education


World Medical Association Declaration–WMA 5th World Conference on Medical Education
The prime concern of all Medical Associations in every country should dedicate themselves to marshalling the resources needed to provide for and guide quality medical education. This should be done in the context of appropriately sized classes with access to adequate faculty member, facilities and funding.
  • To focus professional and public support for medical education, medical associations in all countries should be acutely aware of the needs, opinions, expectations and personal dignity of their citizens.
  • The goal of medical education should be to produce competent and ethical physicians, who respect their roles in the physician patient relationship.
  • The elements of competence must include knowledge, skills, values behaviors and ethics, which provide quality preventive and curative care for individual patients and the community.
  • Research, teaching and ethical patient care are inseparable and essential to achieving the goal of physician competence.
  • An international core curriculum should be developed that will produce and maintain a competent physician whose skills transcend international borders.
  • Internationally standardized methods of assessing professional competence and performance should be developed and applied in undergraduate, graduate and continuing medical education.
  • Free and prompt international dissemination of professionally generated and analyzed medical information should be exchanged on epidemiological and public health problems to guide the development of public policies, the education of physician, and the public.
  • International standards should be established for the evaluation of educational programs across the country.
(Adopted by the 43rd World Medical Assembly Malta, November 1991)

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