World Health Assembly, the principal governing body of the World Health Organization, encourages all 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.
Journal Section | Medical Education |
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Publication Date | December 3, 2016 |
Published in Issue | Year 2002 Volume: 15 Issue: 1 |