Here’s an interesting look at some of the big changes that are taking place in medical education as the YouTube generation heads towards the clinic and hospital bed.
One of the most exciting things about the current crop of the medical schools is that they’re coming on-line at the same time as the entire medical curriculum is undergoing a reinvention. We’ve called this change “Flexner II” elsewhere in this blog.
Jim
Bob D’Alessandri, formerly of West Virginia, is leading the effort to start a new independent medical school in Scranton. Meanwhile he’s started a blog that I find very interesting, especially in the context of our own interests here at Mason.
Jim
Some Canadians evidently are thinking otherwise. See today’s Chronicle of Higher Education blog. This notion may play interestingly south of the border (i.e. here in the US) as the Flexner 2 initiatives continue to play out.
Jim
This is an issue that I talk about quite a bit with colleagues: the notion that as we train a new generation of physicians, they will need a constellation of skills above and beyond their classical medical training. One such area has to do with business know how. Today’s Financial Times (click on the link above) has an excellent article about this new niche in business education.
Money quote:
In the fast-changing world of modern healthcare, the job of a doctor is more and more like the job of chief executive. The people who run hospitals and physicians’ practices don’t just need to know medicine. They must also be able to balance budgets, motivate a large and diverse staff and make difficult marketing and legal decisions.
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