Global Minimum Essential Requirements inMedical Education: From a Dream to the Reality / 中华医学教育探索杂志

ABSTRACT

Medicine as a global profession should undoubtedly possess a common set of value, scientific knowledge and skill. Based on such agreement, many national or international organizations are recently trying to create standards for medical education. These standards can be basically classified into"process standard"and"content standard", the latter emphasizes the results of so-called outcome assessment, the educational evaluation of which must be more substantial. The Institute for International Medical Education(IIME), an international organization established in 1999 in New York, is striving to defy the Global Minimum Essential Requirements in Medical Education, test their validity and feasibility in a few countries and popularize them to the medical cycle in the future.