In this book, Atul Gawande, the author, grips medicine in all its complex and chaotic glory. This book’s three essays talk about diligence, doing right, and ingenuity based on the essential components, “for success in medicine or in any endeavor that involves risk and responsibility.” Each essay focuses on a problem such as the importance of hand-washing, health care delivery in India, and the role of physicians in executions. This book does not just talk about how to be successful in the medical field but, also in life.…
In a limited effort to compensate for poor health conditions, the Department of Indian Affairs increased the number of physicians, from seventy-four to eighty-three, nurses, from eight to twenty-seven, and matrons, from three to twenty-one, in the employ of the Indian Service by 1900. But this achieved little in addressing the central underlying causes of ill health, such as strict military discipline, inadequate diets, regimentation, routinization, and overcrowding (DeJong, 2007).…
The Flexner Report of 1910 transformed the nature and process of medical education in America with a resulting elimination of proprietary schools and the establishment of the biomedical model as the gold standard of medical training. Such an orientation had its origins in the enchantment with German medical education that was spurred by the exposure of American educators and physicians at the turn of the century to the university medical schools of Europe. A catching-up is under way to realign the professional commitment of the physician with a revision of medical education to achieve that purpose.…
Initially, this report, published in 1910 was labelled ‘Medical Education in the United States and Canada’. Created by Abraham Flexner (1866 - 1959) whom visited and graded hundreds of medical schools across America on the model of biomedical science and hands-on training. Those who did not make the grade eventually closed due to a lack of funding. It was the first step towards modern medical education (MedicineNet, 2002). This report was to be the demise of many…
The professionalization of medical practice over the late 19th and early 20th centuries provided stricter qualifications for doctors, raising their overall credibility and efficiency. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were few, in any, requirements necessary to become a practicing doctor; the option were to go to a medical school, have an apprenticeship with a doctor, or simply hang a sign outside offering medical services (Lecture, 10/23). With this, the quality and consistency of physicians varied. This made healthcare for the public…
India had advancements with having first nurses to help treat patients with more discoveries and extensive use of drugs including common one we know today as anesthesia known as a huge contribution to healing process they believed. Studies of the Hindus early documents show that even know their anatomy teachings were limited they used over 120 surgical instruments in the advancement in medicine. China was right next store was also following along in these advancements with a few more of their own, with their highly developed centers of medical training. Their strong beliefs in spiritual illness changed over the years as they came in to more medical technology reasons for illness. In 3000BC, an Emperor known as (father of Chinese medicine) studied books on and came to believe in herbal medicine and still use to this day such as acupuncture, oils, and…
During the mid-18th to late 19th-century medical education/training did not exist, during this time the practice of medicine was not seen as a profession. Everyone who had the desire to be physician could practice medicine, even without any scientific knowledge. According to Shi and Singh (2015), “from about 1800 to 1950, medical training was largely received through an individual apprenticeship with a practicing physician” and not through university education as is do it in the present (p. 87). In the United Stated (U.S.), during the preindustrial era, the American medicine was falling behind compared to the medical education, medical advances and research in Europe. Additionally, medical procedures in the U.S. were primitive and lack a scientific base to support them. “By 1800, only four medical schools existed in the U.S.: College of Philadelphia, King’s College, Harvard Medical School, and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College” (Shi & Singh, 2015, p.87). The medical schools that existed during 1800 were owned and managed by physicians and lacked practical clinical education in hospitals, also required less than the actual years of education for graduation.…
Since the Medical Registration Act was imposed in 1858, medicine has gradually, over time become more professionalised. Prior to this act being introduced there were three main groups of “orthodox…
“No Child Left Behind is an excellent sword that we can use to open doors for the children we represent” (Wright, Attorney at Law). Peter Wright is an attorney who specializes in cases surrounding children with Special Educational needs. When he made this statement, he was referring to a law that President George W. Bush’s administration passed in 2001. No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is a law that requires states to assess the basic skills for children in certain grades. This was not the first law to be created by the government. Before NCLB was created, first there was Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the second was the Individual with Disabilities Educational Improvement Act (IDEIA) also known as Public Law 94-142. Every since the first law was created in the early 1970s schools all over have complained. So schools would not have to abide by these laws states would refuse the funding that was given to them by the government for education. When these laws were created, it was to protect all children with any kind of special needs. Before Section 504 was created schools could legally expel any child they thought may have had a learning disability.…
The United States has an extensive educational system that has been charged with accommodating the needs of an extensively diverse student population. U.S. educational institutions exist at all learning levels, from preschools for early childhood education to secondary education for youths, and post secondary education for both young and older adults. Education in the United States can be commended for the many goals it aspires to accomplish—promoting democracy, assimilation, nationalism, equality of opportunity, and personal development. However, because Americans have historically insisted that schools work toward these frequently conflicting goals, education has often found itself at the center of social conflict and the hot topic of political campaigns, mostly to no avail (Goldin and Katz, 2001). While schools are expected to achieve many social objectives, education in America is neither centrally administered nor supported directly by the federal government, unlike education in other industrialized countries. This system of decentralization has created a system of inequality in education that persists. The current system has created inequalities that have culminated into a generation of students that are not adequately prepared to meet the demands of a global workforce. Moreover, students in the current U.S. educational system are unmotivated and resistant to change due to irrelevant legislation and an overwhelmed system. The inequalities and inconsistencies have spawned many debates in the U.S. as the nation joins the global community (Goldin et.…
One key moment in my life is when I had to learn about advocacy and policy reform in high school. I learned that there was an understanding about cough drops in the school district and that it was described as a law backed by policy makers. My school was enforcing this “standing order” that they misinterpreted into being a law.…
In the early 19th century, India was colonised by the British and many social and political reforms were made during this period. These reforms brought about both positive and negative effects. One of the greatest reforms during this period was the implementation of the western education system in 1835. On the surface it seems like the western education system was implemented in India to improve the social conditions of the people. However, upon reading further, we realise that improving the lives of the Indians was not the motive for implementing the western education system. Educating the Indians was a profit-maximising tactic used by the British. The main reasons why the British wanted to educate the Indians were to convince them to adopt the western culture, to form the basis of western civilisation, to understand the value of British goods and buy them and to fill up the middle level jobs. This also reveals to us the British attitudes towards the Indians and how they were treated in the early 19th century. The western education differs from the traditional Indian education system and impacted the Indian community both positively and negatively. This essay will discuss whether the British education was beneficial and examine its effects on the Indian society.…
The first time I added doctor into my list of 'careers to choose' was when I overheard my mother's monologue "I really want my son to become a doctor". Born as the second child but the first son, held a big responsibility to put up a good example to my siblings, that is why I set a goal to be the best anywhere I go. As what it takes, is to think steps forward, I challenge myself but never lost faith in me since I know determination and confidence are my two precious gifts. My active participation in co-curriculum activities, boost my self esteem tremendously. I managed to hold some important leadership role in school which is the vice head prefect, vice president for the peer support group(PRS) and the president of the English Club which somehow really build my personality and character. However I still score splendidly in my exams. Eventually I was choosen as the best overall students in my former school. Initially with my soft skills and confidence level, I thought of involving myself into business arena, but then sparks of realisation hit me. I want to return the favour that those tax payers have given me. That is when I decided to become a doctor without a single doubt. I planned to start with doing international baccalaureate first as I wanted to prepare myself for the worst and Kolej Mara Banting should be a the best choice to do it, far from the hustle bustle life of a city. I really want to do my degree in Royal College of Surgeon, Ireland. I've heard so much about RCSI and was really hoping to do my medical degree in one of the best medical college in the…
he development of modern science in India is not an organic extension of the earlier tradition. It is an implant by the British in a language that was alien to its people. As with other implants, it needed nourishment and nurturing to be absorbed in the society. Science education was lacking and science was looked upon as an appendage thrust by the British for their own benefit. Until a few decades towards the end of the British rule, the role of science education, scientific and technological research in economic growth and social transformation was rather limited. Only such developments were introduced that did not lead to a conflict with the interests of the colonial power. The only aim of education including that of science education was to turn out men competent to serve…
2. In Dr. M.C. Gupta & Others v. Dr. Arun Kumar Gupta & Others (1979) 2 SCC 339, somewhat similar controversy arose for adjudication, in which the State Public Service Commission invited applications for two posts of Professors of Medicine in the State Medical Colleges. The two appellants as well as respondent nos.1, 2 and 3 applied for the said post. Appellant no.1 had teaching experience of about 6 years and 6 months as a Lecturer in Cardiology in the department of medicine and about 3 years and 2 months as Reader in Medicine in S. N. Medical College, Agra. Since there was no separate Department of Cardiology in that College, Cardiology formed part of general medicine and as such he was required to teach general medicine to undergraduate students and to some post-graduate students in addition to Cardiology. Similarly, appellant no.2 had one year’s experience as postdoctoral teaching fellow in the Department of Medicine, State University of New York, Buffalo, one year’s teaching experience as Lecturer while posted as a Pool Officer and 15 months’ teaching experience as post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Medicine in G.S.V.M. Medical…