In their recent survey regarding, Dorsey et al.
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depicted the—not surprisingly—lack of an existing structured curriculum for undergraduate
medical students, while only two-third of the respondents identified this need, despite
working in an academic hospital or academic affiliated hospital. Despite the fact
that peripheral arterial disease (PAD) was ranked highest as an educational task,
it has been documented that postgraduate doctors have poor knowledge about this topic
in reality, although PAD is a major cause of mortality and morbidity, with coronary
artery disease being the most common cause of death in half of these.
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This is a representative example of the insufficient and outdated perception that
most undergraduate curricula still maintain.
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Published online: March 22, 2022
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