Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was not marked as recommended. The adaptation of western style curriculum in Arab culture brought so many good features as well as some concerns. The social medicine integration in medical education itself raises several questions related to the place where, how to teach, and how to assess. In my personal view I suggest three ways to teach the social medicine, including community based intervention (CBI) and recommended to assess it by 360-degree evaluation.
Highlights
The adaptation of western style curriculum in Arab culture brought so many good features as well as some concerns
It reflects upon the disease experience of a population which may require to change and plan to change to get maximum benefits for the people. It focuses on social and demographic factors that influences the pattern of diseases and these information use to provide increased health for the population. It mainly deals with epidemiology of the diseases, sociology, the available health services, and screening of diseases to reach to bottom of ice berg
In 1999, the European Federation of Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians and the American Board of Internal Medicine launched the Medical Professionalism Project, that stressed upon the fact that knowledge and skills alone are not enough to achieve professionalism (Blank, L., et al, 2003)
Summary
The adaptation of western style curriculum in Arab culture brought so many good features as well as some concerns. The adaptation of curriculum from western world brought some apprehension that directly confronts the cultural values of the Arab world (Khan AS, 2015). Though it may be not applicable for social medicine integration into medical education.
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