Medicine
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This repository contains the published and unpublished research of the Faculty of Medicine by the staff members of the faculty
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Item Challenges in medical education to enhance quality in medical care(College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 2007) de Silva, N*.Item Teaching communication skills(Ceylon College of Physicians, 2001) de Silva, N*.Item Distance education:a flexible learning approach for practising doctors(Galle Medical Association., 2000) de Silva, N*.Distance education is a mode of delivery of education materials such as printed matter, audio and video tapes to the doorstep of learners. It is flexible because it is learner centered, self paced, not constrained by fixed time and place commitments and is transferable to be undertaken anywhere at anytime. General practice teaching through this method was started in the U.K. in the 1950s. In Sri Lanka, a distant education programme for general practitioners to update themselves and obtain post graduate qualifications has enormous potential. These article describes the methodology applied to implement a distant education course for the Diploma in Family Medicine conducted by the Postgraduate Institute of Medicine. This method could be adapted for post graduate education or for CME programme in any other clinical specialising.Item Educational audit on the counselling module of the diploma in family medicine (DFM) course(Galle Medical Association., 1998) de Silva, N*.The criterion for the audit was that the audit was that the trainees should progress from their existing level of confidence to a highest level of knowledge and skills. Pretest and past test assessing of knowledge of skills and evaluation of teaching and learning was carried out results are indicated.Item International course on "Promoting Excellence in Teaching General Practice"(College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1996) de Silva, N*.Item Family medicine in the undergraduate curriculum(Sri Lanka Medical Association, 1995) de Silva, N*.Describes family medicine and its relevance. Two universities established family medicine departments.The introduction of family medicine to the curriculum is particularly opportune in Sri Lanka with medical schools turning out for more doctors than can be absorbed by the health service. Mentions that this is the only discipline in which a newly register doctors can practice unsupervised without postgraduate training. Also there is ha any training available.