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Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education
Amid the rise in conflict and war and their ensuing repercussions, traumatic injuries, psychological distress, and communicable diseases spread widely. Today, health-care providers in the Middle East are faced with new and unfamiliar cases resulting from the use of new and advanced types of weapons....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31966924 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_538_2019 |
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author | Fares, Jawad Fares, Mohamad Y. Fares, Youssef |
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description | Amid the rise in conflict and war and their ensuing repercussions, traumatic injuries, psychological distress, and communicable diseases spread widely. Today, health-care providers in the Middle East are faced with new and unfamiliar cases resulting from the use of new and advanced types of weapons. In addition, there has not been enough emphasis on hands-on experiences in medical school, which can be imperative in times of war. Lack of academia is another inadequacy that limits the transmission of knowledge onto the newer generations. Here, we will shed light on the inadequacies in medical curricula in the Middle East when it comes to addressing patients of war. We also call for action to advance medical education in war-ridden areas by incorporating “conflict medicine” as an integral module in medical curricula. |
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spelling | pubmed-69693722020-01-21 Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education Fares, Jawad Fares, Mohamad Y. Fares, Youssef Surg Neurol Int Editorial Amid the rise in conflict and war and their ensuing repercussions, traumatic injuries, psychological distress, and communicable diseases spread widely. Today, health-care providers in the Middle East are faced with new and unfamiliar cases resulting from the use of new and advanced types of weapons. In addition, there has not been enough emphasis on hands-on experiences in medical school, which can be imperative in times of war. Lack of academia is another inadequacy that limits the transmission of knowledge onto the newer generations. Here, we will shed light on the inadequacies in medical curricula in the Middle East when it comes to addressing patients of war. We also call for action to advance medical education in war-ridden areas by incorporating “conflict medicine” as an integral module in medical curricula. Scientific Scholar 2020-01-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6969372/ /pubmed/31966924 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_538_2019 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Surgical Neurology International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Fares, Jawad Fares, Mohamad Y. Fares, Youssef Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
title | Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
title_full | Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
title_fullStr | Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
title_full_unstemmed | Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
title_short | Medical schools in times of war: Integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
title_sort | medical schools in times of war: integrating conflict medicine in medical education |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6969372/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31966924 http://dx.doi.org/10.25259/SNI_538_2019 |
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