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New currıculum desıgn at marmara unıversıty school of medıcıne

2002; Marmara University; Volume: 15; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

1019-1941

Özlem Sarıkaya, Berrak Ç. Yeğen, Şule Oktay,

Medical Education and Admissions

World Health Assembly, the principal governing body of the World Health Organization, encourages countries to undertake activities to reform medical education and to organize appropriate programs of basic and continuing education (1) in order to attain the goal known as ‘health for all’. The aim of medical education is emphasized as “to educate and to train skilled and competent medical doctors”. Optimal educational approaches should be used to train the future graduates as “care provider, decision maker, communicator, community leader and manager” physicians. Based mainly on a report prepared by the Turkish Medical Doctors’ Association (2), the aim of undergraduate medical education at Marmara University School of Medicine was defined as “to educate qualified medical doctors equipped with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to provide a qualified health care for the individual and the community, in order to attain the goal of “health for all in March 1999.