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Rheumatology Advance Access originally published online on May 16, 2006
Rheumatology 2006 45(7):799-803; doi:10.1093/rheumatology/kel070
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

REVIEW

Meeting the needs of increasing numbers of medical students—a best practise approach

L. J. Badcock, N. Raj, K. Gadsby and C. M. Deighton

Department of Rheumatology, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby DE1 2QY, UK.

Correspondence to: C. M. Deighton, Department of Rheumatology, Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, London Road, Derby DE1 2QY. E-mail: chris.deighton@derbyhospitals.nhs.uk

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   Introduction
 
Wherever clinicians teach, there is a conflict between the provision of clinical service and the provision of quality teaching. For the clinical rheumatologist in the UK, Government waiting list targets, changes in hospital bed use and consultant job planning have put increased pressure on the ability to teach medical students. For academics, there is the additional pressure to produce quality research, underlined by the Research Assessment Exercise in the UK. Add to these pressures a large expansion in student numbers and there is the potential for a very daunting challenge!

This is the situation in Derby and many other medical schools in the UK. In this article, we would like to describe how we have addressed these challenges along ‘best practise’ lines. Our aim is to provide an effective and efficient teaching programme. We hope that this description will be useful for other teaching hospitals that are grappling with similar . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The best practise approach to coping with increased numbers of medical students
 
Apportioning learning objectives
Teaching clinical skills
Teaching relevant knowledge
Teaching appropriate attitudes
Making best use of clinical material
Making the best use of manpower

   Conclusion
 

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