Abstract:

Basic medical skills and attitudes that should be acquired at the end of undergraduate medical education are defined as universal standards. Education programs which begin before clinical years, learner centered, target problem solving, integrated, community-based, interdisciplinary, aimed at skill teaching in a systematic manner are accepted to be effective in teaching basic practice of medicine. In this article, a program that is developed to integrate the "science" and "art" sides of medicine appropriately to the essential principles previously described and applied in Marmara University Medical School since 2000 with the name of Introduction to Clinical Skills Program (ICP) is presented. ICP is an original multidisciplinary program that lasts for 3 years and continues for 26 weeks in each year. Its main objective is to acquire medical students who obtain behaviors and attitudes to provide medical care to the patients and proxies in a humanistic, holistic and professional manner. Because of this, it is applied in small groups. Main elements of the program are; communication skills, clinical skills laboratory activities, student researches, human in medicine, primary care and out-patient clinics experiences.

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