Objectives: The study attempted to highlight the importance of reassessing current objectives and approaches of learning policies in general, and of medical education in particular, in view of the impacts of globalization and the explosive development in communications and the technology.
Study: Pedagogy of the twenty first century based on many principles of which, a new learning environment, novel learning approaches, self-active learning, and life-long learning. The literature on this issue revealed globally that, last decade saw dramatic changes in medical education at least in two issues. The first, involves the learning ways, from the CL approach of physiology and pharmacology education into a PBL approach first, then implementation and training in conjunction with PBL of EBM principles to create therapeutic guidelines for medical practitioners. The 2nd issue includes reassessing most of the medical curricula, through a universal reshuffle process of the syllabus of medical subjects; to determine the resources needed for preparing of expertise, establishments, and techniques, that are necessary for a real medical education.
Conclusion: the authorities, both of undergraduate and higher education, invited kindly to organize a workshop meeting for their cadres to start a national, crucial and necessary steps towards the remodeling of learning strategies. |