title: The Revolution in Medical Education.
abstract: Medical education has been gradually evolving for hundreds of years, but educators are now seeking to identify ways to prepare students for the future of health care delivery. Medical education reform today focuses on creating entirely new models and is moving away from the traditional, post-Flexnerian organization of the medical school curriculum. Content is now being integrated thematically and presented along interdisciplinary lines with an interdigitation of basic and clinical sciences across all four years. Current trends indicate education should contain elements that produce a physician who is able to improve the quality of health care by taking a humanistic approach to medicine, thinks critically, and participates effectively in multidisciplinary and team approaches to patient care. Ultimately, medical education innovation should recognize the development of a physician is a lifetime process and will approach the formation of physicians from a new paradigm to better serve the educator and prepare the learner for the medical practice of tomorrow.
authors: Christina M
authors: CM
authors: Gutierrez
authors: Susan M
authors: SM
authors: Cox
authors: John L
authors: JL
authors: Dalrymple
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000592:standards*; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D010820:Physicians / Q000592:standards*