Main articles: Medical education and Medical school
Painted by Toulouse-Lautrec in the year of his own death: an examination in the Paris faculty of medicine,1901Medical education and training varies around the world.It typically involves entry level education at a university medical school,followed by a period of supervised practice or internship,and/or residency.This can be followed by postgraduate vocational training.A variety of teaching methods have been employed in medical education,still itself a focus of active research.
Many regulatory authorities require continuing medical education,since knowledge,techniques and medical technology continue to evolve at a rapid rate.
Institutions
Contemporary medicine is in general conducted within health care systems. Legal,credentialing and financing frameworks are established by individual governments,augmented on occasion by international organizations.The characteristics of any given health care system have significant impact on the way medical care is provided.
Advanced industrial countries (with the exception of the United States) and many developing countries provide medical services through a system of universal health care which aims to guarantee care for all through a single-payer health care system, or compulsory private or co-operative health insurance.This is intended to ensure that the entire population has access to medical care on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.Delivery may be via private medical practices or by state-owned hospitals and clinics,or by charities; most commonly by a combination of all three.
Most tribal societies,but also some communist countries (e.g. China) and the United States,provide no guarantee of health care for the population as a whole.In such societies,health care is available to those that can afford to pay for it or have self insured it (either directly or as part of an employment contract) or who may be covered by care financed by the government or tribe directly.
Transparency of information is another factor defining a delivery system. Access to information on conditions, treatments, quality and pricing greatly affects the choice by patients / consumers and therefore the incentives of medical professionals. While the US health care system has come under fire for lack of openness,new legislation may encourage greater openness. There is a perceived tension between the need for transparency on the one hand and such issues as patient confidentiality and the possible exploitation of information for commercial gain on the other.
Institutions
Contemporary medicine is in general conducted within health care systems. Legal,credentialing and financing frameworks are established by individual governments,augmented on occasion by international organizations.The characteristics of any given health care system have significant impact on the way medical care is provided.
Advanced industrial countries (with the exception of the United States) and many developing countries provide medical services through a system of universal health care which aims to guarantee care for all through a single-payer health care system, or compulsory private or co-operative health insurance.This is intended to ensure that the entire population has access to medical care on the basis of need rather than ability to pay.Delivery may be via private medical practices or by state-owned hospitals and clinics,or by charities; most commonly by a combination of all three.
Most tribal societies,but also some communist countries (e.g. China) and the United States,provide no guarantee of health care for the population as a whole.In such societies,health care is available to those that can afford to pay for it or have self insured it (either directly or as part of an employment contract) or who may be covered by care financed by the government or tribe directly.
Transparency of information is another factor defining a delivery system. Access to information on conditions, treatments, quality and pricing greatly affects the choice by patients / consumers and therefore the incentives of medical professionals. While the US health care system has come under fire for lack of openness,new legislation may encourage greater openness. There is a perceived tension between the need for transparency on the one hand and such issues as patient confidentiality and the possible exploitation of information for commercial gain on the other.
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