Patnaik, G: Musculoskeletal Medicine for undergraduates

Medical curriculum needs to be altered especially in the field of musculoskeletal medicine. There are perceived deficiencies of organized trauma content in many undergraduate surgical programmes. However we see that a MBBS graduate after passing out of his medical schools is found pathetically deficient in management of trauma cases and especially musculoskeletal disease which forms a major chunk of emergency admissions to any public or even private sector hospital. Very few universities in the world has devised a comprehensive teaching program that involves structured teaching programmes that includes ated time table and log books of musculoskeletal diseases. This gives student access to the interpretations of imaging modalities like CT and MRI scan.In my stint as medical teacher we have devised in our university a structured pattern in this important subject which is augmented with assessment like OSCE and MEQ tools with gratifying results. This method has combined structured teaching and clinical clerkship.It is expected that medical educators pay more attention to this important subject.The topics covered in this book are tutorials topics in musculoskeletal medicine.