Implementing Problem-Based Medical Education : Lessons from Successful Innovations

Arthur MD Kaufman

ISBN 10: 0826146600 / ISBN 13: 9780826146601

Published by Springer Publishing Company, 1985

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - A Springer Series on Medical Education bookThis is a book about the origins, design, implementation, and effects of the [Primary Care Curriculum at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine]. It is also so much more. It is a first-person account of a moving human experience, in which somes deeply caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession.In the 1920s, Gertrude Stein observed that the United States was now the oldest country in the world, for it was the first to join the twentieth century. Perhaps, we must now view the University of New Mexico's PCC as among the oldest programs in medical education, for it may prove to have been one of the first to join the twenty-first century.'--Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD, Director, National Center for Faculty Development in the Health Professions, University of Miami School of Medicine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Implementing Problem-Based Medical Education : Lessons from Successful Innovations
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826146600
• ISBN 13: 9780826146601
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 21D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 622 grams

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Synopsis

A Springer Series on Medical Education book

This is a book about the origins, design, implementation, and effects of the [Primary Care Curriculum at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine]. It is also so much more. It is a first-person account of a moving human experience, in which somes deeply caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession....In the 1920s, Gertrude Stein observed that the United States was now the oldest country in the world, for it was the first to join the twentieth century. Perhaps, we must now view the University of New Mexico's PCC as among the oldest programs in medical education, for it may prove to have been one of the first to join the twenty-first century."--Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD, Director, National Center for Faculty Development in the Health Professions, University of Miami School of Medicine

About the Author

Arthur Kaufman, MD served in the Indian Health Service in South Dakota and in New Mexico before coming to UNM. Dr. Kaufman joined the Department of Family and Community Medicine in 1974 and is currently its chair. His primary interests are in creating innovative education and service models to address community, indigent, rural and population health needs.