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Undergraduate medical education in obstetrics and gynaecology in the USA and Canada, 1985
Author(s) -
BECKMANN C. R. B.,
LING F.W.,
BARZANSKY BARBARA M.,
EDEN R.D.,
WAXMAN B.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1990.tb00005.x
Subject(s) - subspecialty , obstetrics and gynaecology , medical education , undergraduate education , medicine , family medicine , psychology , pregnancy , genetics , biology
Summary Many factors have led to a movement from the emphasis of the 1960s and 1970s on departmental expansion towards an emphasis on cost‐effective undergraduate medical education emphasizing the ‘art’ as well as the ‘science’ of medicine. In January 1985 a questionnaire was sent under the auspices of the Undergraduate Education Committee of the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology to all chairmen of departments of obstetrics and gynecology in the USA and Canada seeking their opinions about these trends and information about the educational programmes in their departments. The information from this study indicates that the chairmen are awarc of and responding to this new direction in medical education. A stabilization of teaching staff and clerkship sizes and the emphasis on clinical as well as cognitive evaluation, despite recognition of the cost of the former, shows active interventions towards these ends. An emphasis on education in ‘basic’ as compared to ‘subspecialty’ areas which is independent of the subspecialty of the academic chairman also supports this trend.