Dermatology – a compulsory part of the UK medical school curriculum?

Dermatological conditions form a significant number of consultations seen by general practitioners on a daily basis. There is a lack of training and formal assessment of dermatology during medical school and we propose that there should be a mandatory component in OSCEs for dermatology during medica...

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Autores principales: Shah, Hemal, Pozo-Garcia, Lucia, Koulouroudias, Marinos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Co-Action Publishing 2015
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Feature Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26701607
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v20.30212
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description Dermatological conditions form a significant number of consultations seen by general practitioners on a daily basis. There is a lack of training and formal assessment of dermatology during medical school and we propose that there should be a mandatory component in OSCEs for dermatology during medical school to enhance one's diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills which will ultimately lead to better care for the patient and efficacious use of NHS resources.
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spelling pubmed-46891232016-04-21 Dermatology – a compulsory part of the UK medical school curriculum? Shah, Hemal Pozo-Garcia, Lucia Koulouroudias, Marinos Med Educ Online Feature Article Dermatological conditions form a significant number of consultations seen by general practitioners on a daily basis. There is a lack of training and formal assessment of dermatology during medical school and we propose that there should be a mandatory component in OSCEs for dermatology during medical school to enhance one's diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills which will ultimately lead to better care for the patient and efficacious use of NHS resources. Co-Action Publishing 2015-12-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4689123/ /pubmed/26701607 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v20.30212 Text en © 2015 Hemal Shah et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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title_short Dermatology – a compulsory part of the UK medical school curriculum?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26701607
http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v20.30212
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