2 resultados para Johns
em Universitat de Girona, Spain
Resumo:
A review article of the The New England Journal of Medicine refers that almost a century ago, Abraham Flexner, a research scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, undertook an assessment of medical education in 155 medical schools in operation in the United States and Canada. Flexner’s report emphasized the nonscientific approach of American medical schools to preparation for the profession, which contrasted with the university-based system of medical education in Germany. At the core of Flexner’s view was the notion that formal analytic reasoning, the kind of thinking integral to the natural sciences, should hold pride of place in the intellectual training of physicians. This idea was pioneered at Harvard University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania in the 1880s, but was most fully expressed in the educational program at Johns Hopkins University, which Flexner regarded as the ideal for medical education. (...)
Resumo:
Randy Barker (EUA, 1939) és metge i professor al Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center de Baltimore, als Estats Units. El Centre ha estat un dels primers a fer del learning by doing un element programàtic, filosofia que, d’alguna manera, comparteix fonaments amb l’aprenentatge basat en problemes (ABP). Barker visita Girona perquè és membre del Consell Acadèmic Internacional de la Facultat de Medicina de la UdG, en la qual, a més, ha impartit la lliçó magistral Professionalisme i ensenyament de la medicina