Thursday, May 03, 2012

Lecture Halls without Lectures — A Proposal for Medical Education — NEJM

Lecture Halls without Lectures — A Proposal for Medical Education — NEJM

The last substantive reform in medical student education followed the Flexner Report, which was written in 1910. In the ensuing 100 years, the volume of medical knowledge has exploded, the complexity of the health care system has grown, pedagogical methods have evolved, and unprecedented opportunities for technological support of learners have become available. Yet students are being taught roughly the same way they were taught when the Wright brothers were tinkering at Kitty Hawk....Click link above to read more.

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