Fuller Jonathan, Olszewski Margaret M
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto.
Can Bull Med Hist. 2013 Fall;30(2):199-209. doi: 10.3138/cbmh.30.2.199.
The virtues of learning medical history for medical students have long been argued. Surveys of Canadian medical schools were done in 1939, 1968, and 1999 to discover details about the inclusion of medical history in undergraduate medical education (UME). In 2012, we completed our own survey. While medical history is more commonly included in the core UME curriculum now than in the past, half of Canada's schools still do not require it. An analysis of trends over time reveals the central importance of longstanding and emergent prejudices and cultural influences as barriers to more widespread inclusion of medical history.
医学生学习病史的益处长期以来一直存在争议。1939年、1968年和1999年对加拿大医学院校进行了调查，以了解本科医学教育（UME）中病史纳入情况的细节。2012年，我们完成了自己的调查。虽然现在病史比过去更普遍地被纳入UME核心课程，但加拿大仍有一半的学校不要求这样做。对长期趋势的分析揭示了长期存在的和新出现的偏见以及文化影响作为更广泛纳入病史的障碍的核心重要性。
