Medicolegal
Update
(Dr Sudhir Gupta, Additional Prof, Forensic Medicine
& Toxicology, AIIMS)
The goal of
medical education is to educate physicians who are entitled and consistent with
their training to practice the profession without limitation. Medical Education
leading to the first professional degree must be conducted by an organized
faculty and the faculty must possess the appropriate academic qualifications
that can only be achieved through formal training and experience.
The first
professional degree should represent completion of a curriculum that qualifies
the student for a spectrum of career choices, including patient care, public
health, clinical or basic research or medical education. Each career choice
will require additional education beyond that required for the first
professional degree.
The research to
advance medical knowledge and the provision of the highest quality of care must
occur in academic settings to demonstrate the highest medical standards.
The content,
format and evaluation of the educational experience provided are the
responsibility of the faculty with participation of National Medical
Associations.
The faculty is
responsible for providing its own obligatory basic curriculum in an academic
environment of freedom in which learning and inquiry can thrive in a maximal
way.
Frequent reviews
of the curriculum, allowing for the needs of the community and for input from
practicing physicians should be conducted by the faculty,
The proper
administrative structure and academic records must be maintained. When the
necessary elements are available the clinical education of practitioner and
specialist can be sponsored by either a university or a hospital.
(Adopted by the
39th World Medical Assembly Madrid Spain, October 1987)
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