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Medical Education and the Role of Psychology

by Dr M D Husain
THE medical education Is an education of well advanced, universal medical science, the knowledge of which helps us to know human system s prob lews and its solutions
By universality of medical education, what is meants is that all medical graduates must have a bask- internationally ba lanced, wide ranging and equal type of medical educn Uon The universal nature of thia education has made tt vast and gigantic, which always puts us into contusion and frequent Indecision, resulting in partial or Incomplete benefit to human society. The student of medicine, therefore, should be prepared to accept the challenges to acquire this vast knowledge with determination. dedication and hard
Here talent might help to some extent. But to achieve thorough medical knowledge only hard work, dedication and training under the guld-aBc« of experienced medical professionals are required. But because of the geographical differences of each people of nation, the application of medical knowledge must have to have a sort of compactness of comprehensiveness which should depend on the demography of one's country or territory The origin of diseases very much depends on Its own geography, environment and habit of the people. There the ecology of the disease pat lem rules verv much all med leal problems
The present trend "is u community-based medical ed ucatton, where the primary health care has been given the top most priority. The implementation of this very concept has not yet got full support and approval of our medical professionals This ts because of one track view of our medi cal professionals, who arc mostly clinically oriented to practise medicine. However. Il Is not necessarily the name of the institution, which makes someone a learned medical
professional.
It is the system or the framework of the institution which should be set up after long years of accumulative experiences by the experienced medical professionals. These arc the most needed things In achieving proper medical education and training. Besides, a healthy atmosphere is a dire necessity for imparling heal thy. enriched medical education. How io create such a healthy atmosphere or condition in a medical institution? We all know II ts easier said than done Bui with the pre sent set up of medk-al instltu Hon In our country. It is rather a bit difficult until an atmosphere of cordiality I* established between the three components such as the medical students, the teacher* and the society. These three components or the factors can well be compared with the ecology of the disease triangle (an agent or source, the- host or the recipient and the environment).
In the case medical education. the source of knowledge is Ihc teacher, the students are the recipients and the
third most important factor ts the social influence. The tnflu encc of the society can either create good atmosphere for proper medical education or can vitiate the atmosphere and ruin the objective, gainful' medical education.
The influences of society, its actions, interactions and reactions etc. all have a direct impact on the students, the recipients. Similarly, the role of medical tca< lK-rs arc also an important factor In the delivery of proper medical cduca non Ihc primary objective of the teacher* wuuM be to Wn part knowledge to the *tu deni*. to the beat of their Capacity. fhla should mean of imply that a lol of the teacher » time is to be devoted to teaching commitments: leaving behind their gainful pro-feaafoiwJ practices.
Besides, there should be enough fae ilitle* and avaikibll ity of teaching malerial* (books, journals, periodical* etc.) and modern technology and research facilities within the Institution. This would keep liar teachers and the slu dents engaged and fully occu
pied for extending the horizon of medical knowledges More the leat hers and student* .art engaged tn academic fu-1ivfty the less the chances of tnflu cnccs of society I am sure, a medical student with dcdlca Uon would be able to acquire medical education of good standard But this will not guarantee hint to become a well-liked medical professional In society. There Is something else also required besides medical knowledge. To achieve this extra knowledge, each medical student or doctor would have io be a well bal-aiv-ed psychologist and should preferably know a lol of human psychology. What I* after all psychology? The psychology 1* nothing but one * mental make up or preparation either for acceptance or rejection of hard realities of life and society Therefore a medical student or a medical doctor must haw to accept psychologically the hard realities of medical education. In medical education or science there is no short-cut route. All that one is permitted to do i* to have one* own medical education a* per one's own requirements (nation'* requirements).
Thi* Is to say that not all brilliant student* arc Io be admitted Into medical education or medical Institution But certainly you should admit such students who really would like the responsibility of a medical professional and would like to become a doctor In the real sense Here moral code and conduct have a role Io play So psychologically a student of medicine ha* to ac ccpt this reality Beside*. there arc sons other code* of con duct also such a* the oath* AU lhc»c arc to be counted to achieve real medk-al education
The final objective of our t tad leal education would be to produce more efficient doctor* for our sock'ly A doc tor * Job. after all. I* not only to treat the disease alone, but In treat the patient as a whole