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)
