Rodriguez Rodolfo, Vidrio Horacio, Campos-Sepulveda Efrain
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, National University of Mexico (UNAM).
Proc West Pharmacol Soc. 2009;52:120-8.
Information overload, proliferation of new drugs and curricular reforms have been recognized as three of the major factors contributing to the insufficient pharmacological education of medical students. To remedy this situation, it has been recommended that a curriculum more selective in knowledge content coupled with a restricted list of drugs be developed. Based on our own teaching experience, common educational objectives, competencies to be achieved, profiles of morbidity and mortality of the Mexican population, and knowledge of the literature, we have identified what should constitute the core content of pharmacology courses in medical schools. Selected themes were grouped in three categories and the number of drugs that undergraduate medical students have to manage is limited to 139. We have developed a concrete, medicine-focused, core pharmacology program dealing with themes and drugs that will best constitute the primary teaching/learning material for undergraduate medical students.
信息过载、新药激增和课程改革已被公认为是导致医学生药理学教育不足的三大主要因素。为了纠正这种情况，有人建议制定一个在知识内容上更具选择性、同时药物清单受限的课程。基于我们自己的教学经验、共同的教育目标、要实现的能力、墨西哥人口的发病率和死亡率概况以及文献知识，我们确定了医学院药理学课程的核心内容应该包括什么。选定的主题分为三类，本科医学生必须掌握的药物数量限制为139种。我们已经制定了一个具体的、以医学为重点的核心药理学计划，涉及那些最能构成本科医学生主要教学/学习材料的主题和药物。
