Publications by authors named "D N Samarasekera"
The maldistribution of physicians, especially in rural areas, remains a global public health challenge. The internship programme for medical doctors is one of the efforts undertaken to address this issue. However, evidence aiming to disentangle this persistent challenge in the Indonesian context has been scant.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSingapore, located strategically at the meeting point of the Malacca Strait and the South China Sea, has established itself as a global financial and economic hub. Despite its small geographical size, Singapore is home to over 5 million people from diverse cultural backgrounds. The city-state's medical education landscape has evolved significantly over the past century.
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- Despite the primary focus on clinical skills in healthcare education, developing psycho-social competencies like empathy is vital for both patient and professional benefits.
- Current approaches to teaching empathy are often inconsistent, with little research on comprehensive, empathy-centered curricula.
- This study will evaluate the impact of a new, focused curriculum on empathy among healthcare freshmen in Singapore, utilizing mixed methods to gather both quantitative and qualitative data.
Curriculum change is relatively frequent in health professional education. Formal, planned curriculum review must be conducted periodically to incorporate new knowledge and skills, changing teaching and learning methods or changing roles and expectations of graduates. Unplanned curriculum evolution arguably happens continually, usually taking the form of "minor" changes that in combination over time may produce a substantially different programme.
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