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Overview of Medical Education and Training

October 2nd, 2011

With population growth and needs around the world to curers and administrators needed to run medical facilities, the need for medical professionals around the world greater than ever. Today the medical profession and health has become one of the largest industries in the world with a wide range of specialties and areas of support, involving everything from paperwork and administration for medical research, development and technology. Indeed, in the new millennium, health has become a priority area for governments and companies around the world to invest in.

Summary

Medical education is the basis of internationally accepted learning about the healing arts and modern procedures and drugs used today. Every country in the world has its own, internationally accepted format for teaching and training of medical and health students and each has its own – very similar – a methodology to train and qualify (and licensed) practitioners entering the field. Around the world, there are a lot of traditional medical training institutions with a philosophy focused on comprehensive development of future generations of experts and industry leaders in this field, and prospective medical students have various options when searching for the right institution to join, and the right doctor for learn from.

Entry into the medical field

All over the world, different curricula are followed and entrance into medical schools for training requires prospective students to fulfill certain criteria.

- Undergraduate entry (European and Asian countries)

Undergraduate entry usually requires students to have completed at least a high school (or A levels in the UK) certificate and sometimes a year of preparatory study before entrance into dedicated medical education.

- Second entry (first professional degree – USA and Canada)

A second entry degree is one for which a student is required to have completed between 2-3 years of study (graduate level) as a pre-requisite for entrance into medical education. This degree is considered as a ‘first professional degree’ (like a PhD or MS degree) after the first degree is completed in a sciences related discipline.

- Graduate entry – Graduate entry program (GEP or GMP)

These are medical programs, occurring outside of the US and Canada, where entry is offered to college or university graduates who have already completed a degree and have taken an aptitude test (MCAT etc). » Read more: Overview of Medical Education and Training

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Education Versus Training

March 1st, 2011

Many people don’t understand the difference between education and training. Education is giving out information and communicating to your trainees. Training is about practice and building skills. Today’s younger generation of employees wants to be trained, not educated.

Problem is, if we don’t educate them before we train them, it could lead to problems. Think about how you learned to drive. You need knowledge of the laws and then the actual training of getting behind the wheel. Same can be said for learning about the birds and the bees–if the education part isn’t done effectively, the training could lead to undesirable results!

Mark Flores, director of ops for Chuck E. Cheese’s, uses the macaroni-and-cheese example to demonstrate the difference. We’ve all made mac & cheese plenty of times in our lives, but if we don’t follow the instructions exactly, we might get macaroni soup, crunchy macaroni, or something else other than what we intended. So how do we deliver education and training to ensure consistency?

Manuals. Boooooooooring! We do need documentation, but make it fun! Include tons of photos and minimal text so it’s more of a comic strip look. People are more likely to remember what they see versus what they read, so retention of information is better. Additionally, it’s easier to translate into other languages. » Read more: Education Versus Training

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