Culture in medical education: comparing a Thai and a Canadian residency programme

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Song Name: Culture in medical education
Artist: Medical Education
Album: Podcasts from the Journal Medical Education 2011
Year: 2011

Globalisation initiatives in medical education are premised on a universal model of medical education. This study was conducted to challenge this premise by empirically examining the impact of culture on the practice of medical education in anaesthesia residency training programmes in Thailand and Canada. Editor in Chief of Medical Education speaks to Dr Anne Wong (Department of Anaesthesia, Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) about the cultural contexts in her paper published in the December issue of the journal ‘Culture in medical education: comparing a Thai and a Canadian residency programme’.

Read the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2011.04059.x/abstract