SUGGESTIONS ON MEDICAL EDUCATION AND REFORM

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

The reform of medical education.

Graduate medical education: a proposal for reform.

Refocusing medical education reform: beyond the how.

Integration of the basic and clinical sciences has been at the heart of medical education reform efforts for nearly a century. Neither the rate nor magnitude of actual progress suggests that reform is anywhere near completion, which presents a challenge to educators to seek ways to overcome significant obstacles to change. Robin Hopkins and colleagues, authors of the Perspective in this issue o...

A structural examination of medical education reform.

Submitted December 23, 2014; accepted January 5, 2015. Osteopathic medical education is currently navigating stormy waters because of unprecedented changes from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Institute of Medicine report Graduate Medical Education That Meets the Nation’s Health Needs,1 and a new single graduate medical education (GME) accreditation system. In response to he...