The temporal and challenging faces of integration in medical education: The fate of pharmacology

An editorial focuses on modern medical education and the challenges posed to, and by, the concept of integration in the medical curriculum and how this has impacted on the discipline of pharmacology. These challenges are addressed from historic (hence the various faces (phases)) and contemporary per...

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Published in:Indian journal of pharmacology 2011-05, Vol.43 (3), p.227-231
Main Author: Achike, Francis I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Curricula
Folk medicine
History of medicine
Integrative medicine
Medical education
Medical schools
Medicine, Primitive
Pharmacology
Quality management
Study and teaching
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Summary:An editorial focuses on modern medical education and the challenges posed to, and by, the concept of integration in the medical curriculum and how this has impacted on the discipline of pharmacology. These challenges are addressed from historic (hence the various faces (phases)) and contemporary perspectives, borrowing largely from our observation in various medical schools where we have taught and/or have visited as scholar, and from the scientific literature.
ISSN:0253-7613
1998-3751
DOI:10.4103/0253-7613.81492