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Jun 29, 2012 · This article highlights the impact of some influential changes to undergraduate and postgraduate medical education over the past two decades. Figure 1 ⇓ outlines some of the key junctures that have affected the quality and experience of medical education since 1992.
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- 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
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- 2019
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.
General Medical Council medical education Executive summary Chapter 2 – The state of The pandemic has had a signifcant impact on formal medical education. In response, April rotations were cancelled for all doctors in training and a new post (FiY1) was created for some 2020 medical school graduates to join the workforce early.
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Mar 31, 2017 · The authors describe the important role of medical schools and graduate medical education programs (residencies) in relationship to the advances in Medicine witnessed during the twentieth century; diagnosis, prognosis and treatment were revolutionized.
- Lucien Cardinal, Alan Kaell, Alan Kaell
- 2017
Feb 7, 2012 · This article reviews changes in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education since the Flexner report of 1910. I argue that many of the changes in the twentieth century could be viewed as ‘post-Flexnerian’, and related to the integration of biomedical science in the preclinical medical curriculum.
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In this Health Policy, we list institutional and instructional reforms to assess what has happened to health-professional education since the publication of the Lancet Commission and how the COVID-19 pandemic altered the education process.
