Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Medical Education

Medical education is the structured teaching, learning, and assessment through which prospective and practising clinicians acquire the knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes required to care for patients safely and effectively. It is organised along a continuum that runs from undergraduate basic-science and p…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 9 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 20× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Medical education is the structured teaching, learning, and assessment through which prospective and practising clinicians acquire the knowledge, skills, and professional attitudes required to care for patients safely and effectively. It is organised along a continuum that runs from undergraduate basic-science and pre-clinical instruction, through clinical clerkships and licensing, to postgraduate specialty training and lifelong continuing professional development. Curricula increasingly emphasise integration of foundational sciences with clinical reasoning, competency-based progression, and the alignment of teaching methods with how students actually learn. The research collected here reflects this breadth. Studies examine the perceived relevance of basic sciences to later clinical study and the effects of integrated teaching among first-year medical students, alongside curriculum redesign undertaken to maintain training quality when disruptions, such as pandemic restrictions, constrained traditional clinical exposure. Other work analyses students' views of their learning environments and study approaches, and the use of online platforms to deliver continuing medical education in specialised fields such as endocrinology, illustrating the growing role of digital and informatics tools. Together these contributions treat medical education as an evidence-based discipline in its own right, in which instructional design, environment, and technology are deliberately evaluated to produce competent, adaptable healthcare practitioners.

Research published in this journal

9 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 9 articles above have been cited 20 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Medical Practitioners.

Journal editorial board
Pablo Avanzas · Spain Susann Jarhult · sweden Bianka Wachtlin · Germany

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