title: Models of learning, training and progress evaluation of medical students.
abstract: Medical education has changed during the last century. Teachercentred medical education has been replaced by a studentcentred one. Some general educational principles have been adopted in medicine faculties, leading to more active students involved in learning, and interactive methods have been introduced, and the role of experience has been focused. Disciplinebased medical education is inadequate for developing comprehensive competence and doctoring. Integrated multidisciplinary learning, together with new clerkship approaches and organization, represent the future of medical education. Continuing, comprehensive, assessment can measure progression in knowledge, skills, attitudes and values. Progress test have recently been introduced in some medical school as a reliable tool for assessing the progressive performance of students in time and monitoring the entire learning process.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Gastroenterologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche, Università degli Studi di Verona, Italy. italo.vantini@univr.it
authors.forename: Italo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Vantini
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Benini
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D004501:Education, Medical; D004521:Educational Measurement; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D013337:Students, Medical; D013663:Teaching