Revisiting the Medical School Educational Mission
"Expansion is going on at almost all the medical schools in the U.S., and this is expected to increase the physician population by some 5,000 new doctors by 2020. According to a new report, medical educators should look at this expansion as an opportunity “to explore bold, innovative ways to improve” medical education, including better alignment of medical training with societal needs and incorporate “contemporary realities,” such as the rapid pace of scientific discovery, calls for more public accountability, acknowledging the unsustainable cost of healthcare as well as “unconscionable” racial and ethnic disparities, and the increasing burden of chronic illness and disability."Click on title for a link to the Executive Summary .pdf from the October 2008 Conference convened by the Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation.
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