It would be interesting to poll the membership as to their involvement in undergraduate medical school teaching, for example here at the Peninsula Medical School in the SW myself and my other colleagues do deliver the Clinical Chemistry component. I would like to think we do this reasonably well. The trouble is the very small time allotted in the timetable.
For example the sum total of Clin Chem is reduced to
Ischaemic Heart disease and its complications year 3 , 30 minutes
Pathology of self harm/ suicide year 3 30 minutes
Jaundice year 3 30 minutes
Thyroid and Adrenal Year 4, 1 hour
And you guessed it " A case of Ethylene Glycol poisoning" year 5, 1 hour
That's a sum total of 3.5 hours in 5 years
Because of our concerns about lack of appreciation of basic physiology we ran a three week special study unit covering electrolytes and blood gases for the second years and they were gagging for it. They complained that they are just not getting the teaching they need in this new wonderful problem based learning environment. It was interesting that at the end of the three weeks I took them along to the 5th year Ethylene Glycol case and they totally out performed the 5th years on the acid / base aspects.
Perhaps we need an audit of what we are all doing if we are to stand any chance of getting the curriculum changed.
Cheers John
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Subject: Re: BBC NEWS | Health | Test confusion 'risk to patients'
It is "POOR" teaching in the Universities and it is NOT taught by
Clinical Biochemists/Chemical Pathologists and NOT by the ACB. That is
the whole point of the article: it is "POORLY" taught BECAUSE teaching
of pathology has been REDUCED.
Dr Ian D Watson PhD FRCPath
Chair
Association for Clinical Biochemistry
Dept Clinical Biochemistry
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Subject: Re: BBC NEWS | Health | Test confusion 'risk to patients'
According to the link to the ACB from the BBC website:
"The Association for Clinical Biochemistry blamed poor teaching of the
subject at medical schools"
Such teaching would in a large part be delivered by members of which
organisation? Oh, the ACB. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
To be fair the actual press release points to removal of clinical
biochemistry from the curriculum, rather than poor teaching. I suggest
the
wording on the ACB website is changed to reflect this.
Paul
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