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Establishing a new medical school: A contemporary approach to personalizing medical education

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posted on 2023-05-19, 22:51 authored by Richard HaysRichard Hays

Objective: To borrow a public health concept, there has been a global outbreak, perhaps a pandemic, of new medical schools during the last 20 years, resulting in a diverse range of programs in many different contexts. The question posed was: how should the task of establishing a new medical program be approached in 2018?

Methods: Based on involvement with several new medical programs, this paper presents a highly idealistic commentary on what a new medical program might look like. The paper adopts the organizational structure of the World Federation of Medical Education Basic Medical Education standards as a scaffold, because accreditation both locally and globally is intended.

Results: The program design reflects both progress in learning technology and the challenges faced in a changing world, where disruption appears inevitable, and innovation may be necessary to produce the medical graduates needed to improve the health status of an expanding, ageing and ailing global population.

Conclusion: The program model described represents a combination of educational design, emerging technology and a focus on future health care needs.

History

Publication title

Medical Teacher

Volume

40

Issue

10

Pagination

990-995

ISSN

0142-159X

Department/School

Tasmanian School of Medicine

Publisher

Carfax Publishing

Place of publication

Rankine Rd, Basingstoke, England, Hants, Rg24 8Pr

Rights statement

Copyright 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Allied health therapies (excl. mental health services)

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