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Oct 22, 2024 · Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development is a rigorously peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to the publishing of timely information on medical education practices and development including basic science, clinical, and postgraduate medical education. It aims to present articles that assist educators in the evaluation of ...
Improving medical education is an important process that changes from time to time based on the development of medical science and practice, society's need for a certain number of quality doctors, better preparations, and better selection of candidates ...
COVID-19 exposed undergraduate medical education curricular gaps in exploring historical pandemics, how to critically consume scientific literature and square it with the lay press, and how to grapple with emerging ethical issues. In addition, ...
- Reform Movement and Integrated Curriculum
- Influence of Oversight Bodies
- Characteristics of Today’S Medical Students
- General Critique
- Impact of Student Evaluation Systems
- Impact on Medical Educators
- Ethics, Professionalism and Inter-Professionalism in The Curriculum
- Impact on Pathology
- Impact on Physician-Scientists
- Complexities and Proposed Solutions
To promote more active learning and less passive learning, curriculum developers have introduced a variety of approaches, including small group sessions, problem-based learning, self-directed learning, team-based learning, and flipped classrooms as replacements for the traditional lecture format . However, many in the reform movement consider that ...
Advances in medical care and technology have been driving forces behind these curriculum changes. In the United States, a major impetus for such curriculum changes has come from the Liaison Committee for Medical Education (LCME), and its sponsoring institutions, the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Associatio...
A major consideration in any discussion of education is the profile of the students. Analysis of today’s students is that they score higher on assertiveness, self-liking, narcissistic traits, high expectations, and some measures of stress, anxiety and poor mental health, and also lower on self-reliance [33,34,35]. These generational characteristics...
While apparently accepting the practices of today’s medical students as a fait accompli, a key tenant of the reform movement is that the traditional subject-based and lecture-based curriculum has failed to accomplish the desired outcome of producing physicians for the twenty-first century . Content reformers favor a repeal of major parts of the tra...
How students function in an educational program is inextricably linked to how they are evaluated. Recurrent movements to abolish grades, exams and honor societies to mitigate undue competiveness, stress and general malaise is the present educational zeitgeist [68,69,70,71,72]. For many years, the standard system of student evaluation was based on n...
Over the years, medical educators, including basic biomedical science educators and clinician educators, have had to adapt to changes in curriculum [84,85,86]. Many medical educators have experienced significant challenges in the implementation of the new curriculum . Competing demands on faculty time are causing stress and burnout among faculty as...
A major goal of the new curriculum is the development of holistic, ethical physicians with clear communication skills imbued with empathy and compassion for patients . These goals are not new but are imbedded in the ideals of the medical profession which are intrinsic to its code of ethics . There is a longstanding consensus that professionalism an...
Pathology is uniquely both a medical science and a clinical discipline [94,95,96,97,98,99]. In the analogy of the tree of medicine, the trunk is general pathology, which draws from all the basic biomedical sciences to elucidate general principles of regulation and dysregulation of homeostasis, and divides into the many branches of special pathology...
Physician-scientists of various stripes have a unique and important role in translating basic science discoveries into advances in clinical medicine [115, 116]. Their numbers are small and their development is under threat. In some institutions, tailored curricula are being implemented to promote the development of clinician scientists [117, 118]. ...
Reformers contend that changes in the healthcare system and in medical practice in the clinic and hospital have outpaced those in the classroom, resulting in a declining relevance of the traditional curriculum and a growing urgency for a paradigm shift in medical education. Three barriers to the implementation of evidence-based curriculum reform ha...
- L. Maximilian Buja
- l.maximilian.buja@uth.tmc.edu
- 2019
BMC Medical Education is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in relation to the education and training of healthcare professionals. The journal welcomes studies on students and professionals across all levels of education; education delivery aspects; and other education-related topics.
Mar 29, 2021 · An opportunity to reinforce the concept of evidence-based medical education has emerged. The adoption of online learning in medical education can have several benefits: One benefit is the flexibility of time and location. Online learning can also be much more cost-effective than classroom-based learning.
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In essence, crises catalyze change because they present leaders with no choice but to transform—or to fail. The first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, which was declared in March 2020, illustrated that there is much to celebrate about current approaches to medical education.
