Bhavik Shah is a final year MBBS student
from BJMC, Ahmedabad and Chase Yarbrough is a PGY2 resident in Harvard
Medical School receiving dual training in Medicine and Pediatrics as
part of a 5 year program. We had the pleasure to learn with them last
week during their visit to our institute for the BMJ Cases Medical
Elective and following are some of our learning insights around the
differences between the US medical education system and Indian Medical
education system shared so that we can discuss how to optimize the
upsides and downsides of both.
1) According to Chase
Yarbrough, the US medical graduate UMG finishes all their theory lecture
classes by the end of second year and is expected to spend the rest of
their 2 years in the wards and take 'ownership' of their patients,
presenting and discussing their cases in the wards and altogether
getting involved with the treating team. The Indian medical graduate IMG
on the other hand is expected to attend lecture classes throughout the 4
years and taking 'ownership' of their patients is never encouraged for
most part of their clinical attendance. The concept of 'Patient
Ownership' (or perhaps a better label is 'developing a continuous and
positive relationship with patients' ) is something that the Indian
Medical graduate learns much later in his/her life as a clinician and
many who are not fortunate enough to be part of a 'patient centered
learning ecosystem' never feel the need to learn it?
5)
Words that we take for granted here in India such as ragging, mugging,
whatsapp etc were being heard by Chase for the first time. :-)
Other than their their involved participation with our patients from 9:00 AM to 4 PM, and the evening-lecture-classes they took for our students in LNMC (https://www.youtube.com/
More about Chase Yarbrough:http://www. brighamandwomens.org/ Departments_and_Services/ medicine/services/ socialmedicine/DGHE/ yarbroughbio.aspx
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