Teaching neurology in the 21st century: suggestions from the Association of British Neurologists for UK medical schools planning their core curriculum

Publisher Website
Google Scholar
Abstract
The recent General Medical Council proposed that UK medical schools develop a core curriculum with special study modules is welcomed. The Association of British Neurologists recommends that the core undergraduate curriculum in basic neuroscience and clinical neurology should enable a recently qualified doctor to: (1) appreciate a patient has a neurological problem; (2) evaluate the common neurological presenting symptoms; (3) recognise the common neurological disorders; (4) recognize neurological emergencies and initiate treatment; (5) manage the common neurological disorders using drugs when appropriate, appreciate other aspects of the general management, and know what neurosurgery may have to offer; (6) appreciate the role of doctors and others in the care of patients with neurological disability; (7) appreciate ethical issues associated with neurological disorders. It is further recommended that the teaching of basic neuroscience and clinical neurology be integrated as far as possible so that basic neuroscience becomes a means to an end rather than an end in itself concentrated merely in the first years of the medical students' course. It is recognized that more clinical neurology will need to be taught in the out-patient clinic than in the ward, and that it is important to involve neurosurgeons and neuro-rehabilitationists as well as medical neurologists. It is suggested, that each medical school names a single senior member of the Faculty of Medicine to be responsible for organizing the core curriculum and examinations based on discussions between basic neuroscientists and clinical neurologists throughout all stages of the core curriculum.

This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: