The year 2009 saw a number of developments in Medical
Education in Malta that were initiated as a result of a
commitment to revising the medical curriculum in order to
meet the challenges in medical education. A record number of
students were admitted to the medical course in 2009. There is
concern that eventually this exponential increase in admissions
is not sustainable due to infrastructural, financial and human
resource restraints. Meanwhile there has been a simultaneous
attempt to re-vamp the first and second year curriculum and
to continue to fine tune the curriculum in years three, four and
five. Students are now introduced to clinical scenarios as early
as during the first year of the medical course and case based
learning is being implemented into a modular system of teaching
that integrates anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and genetics
to ensure a holistic approach to understanding the human body
in health and subsequently in disease. It is hoped that such
changes will bring the University of Malta Medical School more
in line with the ethos of the Bologna process and the European
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