Teaching of clinical physiology in. The medical curriculum the Omani model

ABSTRACT

In recent years, Physiology, as a medical discipline is continuously drifting away from the study of the complex, integrated whole body functions towards cellular and molecular levels. This has resulted in a steady increase in molecular biologists and a steady decline in medical physiologists in departments of Physiology in medical schools. Such change is already having its impact on the teaching of body systems and integrative Physiology to medical students, as evident the shifting of such teaching from Physiology departments to the respective clinical departments where Physiology is being taught by physicians of the respective clinical departments where Physiology is being taught by physicians of the respective clinical disciplines. The aim of this presentation is to show that the introduction of the teaching of Physiology in medical schools and teaching hospitals can help to restore the intergrity of medical Physiology as an entity in medicine