Basic medical sciences should be mainly taught by clinicians for a tight integration of basic and clinical sciences in medical education.

Year 2022, Volume: 6 Issue: 3, 320 - 325, 31.12.2022

Süleyman Oktar

https://doi.org/10.30565/medalanya.1159175

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Today, medical education faces many problems. However, the most serious problem is the inability to integrate basic and clinical sciences. For this reason, students alienate from basic sciences, and clinicians are leaving sciences to basic scientists every day. Basic medical sciences learned in the preclinical term are remembered less by students and cannot be sufficiently associated with clinical reality. This is because basic scientific knowledge learned without a clinical framework is low-value data that the student does not know how to use. Therefore, all reform initiatives in the medical education curriculum stick to the obstacle of basic sciences. Now is the time to take bold steps. The first step should be to remove the preclinical term from medical education. Medical education should only consist of clinical education terms. This will gain the student and clinician a lot more time for clinical training. The second step should be to take basic sciences education from basic scientists and place it under the responsibility of clinicians. Clinicians can decide much better how much of basic science knowledge is clinically relevant. As a component of clinical education, it is best for students to internalize the basic sciences during classes, at the bedside, and in other clinical practices under the clinician's authority. Thus, students may be graduated as academic clinicians who have internalized the basic sciences and integrated the basic sciences with clinical reality.

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medical education, curriculum, clinical apprenticeship, integration, basic medical sciences

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Tıp eğitiminde temel ve klinik bilimlerin sıkı entegrasyonu için temel bilimler esas olarak klinisyenler tarafından öğretilmelidir.

Abstract

Bugün tıp eğitimi birçok sorunla karşı karşıyadır. Fakat en ağır sorun temel ve klinik bilimlerin entegre edilememesidir. Bu nedenle öğrenciler temel bilimlerden soğumuş, klinisyenler ise bilimi temel bilimcilere bırakmıştır. Klinik öncesi dönemde öğrenilen temel bilimler öğrenciler tarafından unutulmakta, klinik bilgiyle bağdaştırılamamaktadır. Çünkü klinik bilgi olmadan öğrenilen bir temel bilim bilgisi öğrenci için nasıl kullanacağını bilmediği düşük değerli bir bilgidir. Bu yüzden tıp eğitimi müfredatındaki her reform temel bilimlere takılıp kalmaktadır. Artık cesur adımlar atmanın zamanı gelmiştir. Birinci adım tıp eğitiminden klinik öncesi dönemin çıkarılması olmalıdır. Tıp eğitimi tamamen klinik eğitim döneminden oluşmalıdır. Bu durum klinik eğitim için öğrenciye ve klinisyen öğreticiye çok daha fazla zaman kazandıracaktır. İkinci adım temel bilim eğitiminin temel bilimcilerden alınıp klinisyenlerin sorumluluğuna verilmesi olmalıdır. Bir temel bilim bilgisinin ne kadarının hangi şekilde klinikle ilişkili olduğuna bir temel bilimci değil ancak klinisyen karar verebilir. Temel bilimlerin klinik eğitimin bir bileşeni olarak klinisyen tarafından derslik, hasta başı ve diğer klinik uygulamalar sırasında öğrenciye özümsetilmesi en doğrusudur. Böylece öğrenciler temel bilimleri özümsemiş ve temel bilimleri klinik durumla entegre etmiş akademik klinisyenler olarak yetişecektir.

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tıp eğitimi, müfredat, klinik stajlar, entegrasyon, temel bilimler

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