title: Orthopaedic undergraduate education.
abstract: Musculoskeletal disease in the community is common, and much of it responds to early diagnosis and preventive care. At the same time, modern orthopaedics, like so many specialist subjects, has increased significantly in depth and detail pari passu with its advances. It therefore becomes all the more important in desiging undergraduate teaching programmes in these specialist subjects to provide a comprehensive basic training programme that is flexible enough to move with the specialty. The orthopaedic undergraduate education programme in Oxford meets these requirements, embraces all aspects of the subject, and enables the medical student to examine the musculoskeletal system with confidence to interpret his findings, without making him an embryo specialist.
mesh_terms: D001296:Audiovisual Aids; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D004521:Educational Measurement; D009985:Orthopedics / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods; D006113:United Kingdom