title: Critique of medical history education in Turkey's medical faculties.
abstract: In this article the curricula at the baccalaureate level of 18 medical faculties in our country that have Deontology-Medical Ethics and Medical History departments have been evaluated and classified, looking at the number of hours and topics. Our purpose for this study was, particularly from the aspect of medical history, to compare curricula in departments in which this class is given, to display shared and different directions, and to draw a general framework of medical history education in our country. The study was conducted between March and May 2004.A questionnaire with a total of 12 questions was sent by e-mail or fax to the related departments in the medical faculties. The data that were collected on the questionnaire included a) the year of foundation of the related department and the Medical Faculties that have Deontology-Medical History and Ethics Departments, b) the names of the faculties that have baccalaureate and doctoral programs, c) the number of teaching staff in these faculties, d) the length of medical history and ethics classes and their timing in semesters, e) the stated basic purpose and objectives of medical history classes, f) information about journals related to medical history in our country and g) organized ongoing medical history education. In this study qualitative and quantitative data were evaluated simultaneously, the purpose of medical history classes and the part that these classes play in developing the physicians' identity were assessed together with other results.
authors.affiliation: Department of Deontology and Medical Ethics, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. nuketbuken@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Nuket Ornek
authors.initials: NO
authors.lastname: Buken
authors.forename: Serap
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sahinoglu
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education; D006666:History of Medicine; D014421:Turkey