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2nd IREIIMS Open Symposium
Session 5 Modernizing Medical Practice and Education
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Prof. Makoto Hashizume of Kyushu University illustrated the problem of familiarizing physicians with new technologies by the example of a new program of formation in minimally invasive surgery. The program has launched a progressive step-by-step training using, successively, simulators, living tissues and laboratory animals. After certification, the fellows are ready to work with sophisticated technology such as robotic surgery. |
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Prof. Chris Browne of Monasch Medical School, Australia, reported on the experience in Australia of integrated learning. The aim of the program is not only to face the increase in basic biological knowledge and the increasing demands for clinical skills but also to address new key issues such as medico-legal matters, patient safety, evidence-based practice, and indigenous and remote rural health. Attention has been given to specialized medical schools in primary care, to the continuum of medical education from premedical school to the continuing medical education of practitioners and to the redefinition of the role of doctors. |
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President Jean-Louis Vanherweghen of Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, has underlined the risk for the future of academic medicine resulting from opposing demands: on the one hand, keeping abreast of huge and rapid developments in biology and, on the other, facing the escalating medical services. He suggested the incorporation of training dedicated to basic research at the bench (Ph.D courses) into postgraduate medical education. He showed that this would be possible provided that funds could be obtained in the postgraduate training and for an increase in the pool of postgraduates for research positions. |
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