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Reenvisioning Medical Education for the New Millennium
Call for Papers
Charlene Breedlove, MA;
Hannah Hedrick, PhD
JAMA. 1999;282:2171.
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Kenneth Ludmerer, MD, has persuasively argued in his landmark new book, Time to Heal,1 that medical education is in the beginning stage of a second revolution. He views the 1990s as a "prerevolutionary" stage, marked by "unrest, turbulence, and the disintegration of existing institutions, but not yet by a new platform or model." The 20th century as a whole, he believes, will be remembered as a time of abundance in medicine, compared with the increasing resource constraints physicians already face in trying to meet the needs of a growing and more diverse population, a larger elderly population, and more people living longer with chronic disease.
In this new environment, what models are physicians in training being taught to follow? How, for instance, are students being taught to deal with uncertainty and, at the same time, make decisions that successfully pursue an evidence-based approach? . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Author Affiliations: Ms Breedlove is Associate Editor, JAMA, and Dr Hedrick is Director, Division of Medical Education Products, American Medical Association, Chicago, Ill.
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