Basic medical sciences should be mainly taught by the clinicians for a tightly integration of basic and clinical sciences in medical education.

Abstract

Medical education today faces many problems. But the most serious problem is the inability to integrate basic and clinical sciences. For this reason, students alienate from basic sciences and also clinicians are leaving sciences to basic scientists every day. The basic medical sciences learned in the preclinical term are remembered less by the students and cannot be sufficiently associated with clinical reality. Because a basic scientific knowledge learned without clinical framework is a low-value data that the student does not know how to use. Therefore, all reform initiatives in the medical education curriculum stick to the obstacle of basic sciences. Now is the time to take bold steps. The first step should be to removed the preclinical term from medical education. Medical education should only consist of clinical education term. This will gain the student and clinician a lot more time for clinical training. The second step should be to take basic sciences education from basic scientists and place it under the responsibility of clinicians. Clinician can decide much better how much of a basic sciences knowledge is clinically relevant. As a component of clinical education, it is best for the students to internalize the basic sciences during classroom, bedside and other clinical practices under the clinician's authority. Thus, students may be graduated as academic clinicians who have internalized the basic sciences and integrated the basic sciences with the clinical reality.