Open code | Sub-category | Category |
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Resident-oriented education in clinical wards | “Medical sciences education under the shadow of specialization” | Consequences of specialization in the culture of Iran |
Resident-oriented education and abandoning undergraduate medical education | ||
Residents and fellows responsibility for teaching the undergraduate medical students instead of professors | ||
Undergraduate medical students’ confusion as a result of complicated discussions in educational rounds | ||
Unrealistic self-confidence of undergraduate medical students in terms of having specialized skills | ||
Absence of teamwork between specialists, and thus harming the patients | “Possibility to harming patients” | |
Isolated subspecialties imposing a financial burden on patients | ||
Specialization as a cause of not claiming responsibility for complicated cases | ||
Increasing medical errors | ||
Specialists not supporting one another if complication arises, which threatens the life of patients | ||
Busy wards, and all patients visiting specialized centers | “Distrust of society in the services provided by the 1st and 2nd level centers” | |
Unfamiliarity of society with the status of specialized centers, and visiting 1st level centers without referral | ||
Busy specialized and subspecialized clinics since patients only visit specialists | ||
Trust in subspecialists and the internist, and general practitioner’s lack of status |