Dear Colleagues,
In Germany the situation may be slightly better as clinical
chemistry/laboratory medicine is part of the medical school curriculum.
However, the critical point is that we teach it to third year medical
students who are just starting clinical education and can hardly put
laboratory data/algorithms into a clinical context.
Locally, we have good experience with elective seminars, too. We have
offered for some years in a row a course entitled "Evidence-based
laboratory medicine". The current one reads "Teaching laboratory
medicine and internal medicine with classic papers". Although
relatively few students attend, their feedback is quite encouraging.
May we make use of the discussion forum to compile a list how in
different countries clinical chemistry/laboratory medicine is being
tought in medical school ? This may form a starting point to propose
changes ...
Frustratingly, clinical chemistry/laboratory medicine is about to be
completely removed from the dentistry school curriculum in Germany. Who
will teach them blood counts, basic coagulation etc. ?
Best regards,
Mike
Dr Michael Steiner
University of Rostock
Institute of Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine
D-18057 Rostock
GERMANY
James J Miller schrieb:
> Similar reductions of Pathology, in general, and especially Laboratory
> Medicine in the medical school curriculum have occurred over the last
> decade in the US - a little more reduction each year. (And there
> wasn't a whole lot of Laboratory Medicine to begin with.)
>
> About 6 or 7 years ago, I attended a workshop at the AACC meeting
> given by a pathologist from Canada. He had a unique solution. He
> started an _elective_ course in Laboratory Medicine. Only a few
> medical students took it at first, but, after a few classes had
> advanced to ward duty, those who had elected to take Laboratory
> Medicine began recommending it to younger medical students. Within a
> few years, all medical students elected to take the course.
>
> I don't recall his name or institution. I could probably dig it out
> of my archives, but perhaps some of our Canadian colleagues know
> who/where this is, whether it has persevered, and whether it has spread.
>
> -Jim
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