2017
DOI: 10.5116/ijme.58b1.c927
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Medical education in Iraq: issues and challenges

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“…In the past, graduates seeking specialty training would travel abroad, usually to Great Britain, to secure specialty qualifications before returning to Iraq. Once medical education and clinical care in Iraq had the reputation of being the best in the region [ 16 ].. Today, medical education in Iraq is held back by a lack of facilities, limited financial support, loss of experienced faculty, and a static traditional medical curriculum urgently in need of revitalization [ 23 ].…”
Section: Background and Rationalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the past, graduates seeking specialty training would travel abroad, usually to Great Britain, to secure specialty qualifications before returning to Iraq. Once medical education and clinical care in Iraq had the reputation of being the best in the region [ 16 ].. Today, medical education in Iraq is held back by a lack of facilities, limited financial support, loss of experienced faculty, and a static traditional medical curriculum urgently in need of revitalization [ 23 ].…”
Section: Background and Rationalementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Multiple linear regression model with the total communication skills score as the dependent (outcome) variable and selected explanatory variables. It can be hypothesised that the doctors who took part in the study were taught according to the traditional, teacher-centered approach whereby students were not encouraged to take responsibility and to question their learning (Al-Shamsi, 2017). Hence, it can be argued thatfor freshmen physicians taught under this curriculum-it might require some time after graduation to develop the confidence to interact with patients outside the rigid structures and roles established by the training.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Both medical education system and healthcare providing system in Iraq were considered among the best educational and medical systems in the region, especially during the early 1980s. Following this golden period, these systems suffered from regression and descent as a result of successive wars and conflicts (3,4) . 75 IJBPAS, January, 2019, 8 (1) There are five medical colleges in Baghdad; each is backed with teaching hospital for clinical training.…”
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confidence: 99%