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The Renaissance School of General Medicine appears to be a school for
the common doctor treating the majority of the needs of the common man.
This school of thought will allow the student doctor to acquire a good
working knowledge of the problems most patients will present with. The
student will be able to relate the material learned in class easier to the
everyday world by learning that is based on problems in real patients from
day one.
In this type of school, the student will be on the cutting edge of
practicing medicine by utilizing resources from other health care
professionals, the internet, patient partners, general clinics and
community based learning centers. The use of hand held computers will
allow the overall learning process to be faster and easier. The rolling
programme of workshops and tutorials will also allow the student to learn
the new advances in medicine, as well as maintaining the knowledge that
they have already acquired.
I am an Osteopathic medical student and the article Renaissance
school was decribing a futureistic approach of what osteopathic medical
education is today. We look at the whole patient to evaluate their health
problems. We are geared toward a primary medicine speciality like the
article spoke of. Our technology is not as up to date as descibed in the
article but we're working on it everyday. We as future physicians need to
concentrate on being effective in terms of the patient. The main goal is
to benefit the patients quality effectively and promptly. I enjoyed all
three articles, but I agreed with one the most.
The Medical School of Choice
The Renaissance School of General Medicine appears to be a school for
the common doctor treating the majority of the needs of the common man.
This school of thought will allow the student doctor to acquire a good
working knowledge of the problems most patients will present with. The
student will be able to relate the material learned in class easier to the
everyday world by learning that is based on problems in real patients from
day one.
In this type of school, the student will be on the cutting edge of
practicing medicine by utilizing resources from other health care
professionals, the internet, patient partners, general clinics and
community based learning centers. The use of hand held computers will
allow the overall learning process to be faster and easier. The rolling
programme of workshops and tutorials will also allow the student to learn
the new advances in medicine, as well as maintaining the knowledge that
they have already acquired.
Competing interests: No competing interests