MANUSCRIPT: Medical Education and Professional Training— Changing the Trajectory
At least 15 reports have called for change in medical
education in the last decade ending 2010. The problems
facing medical education have been thoroughly elucidated.
There is remarkable congruence in the recommendations
of these reports. There reports have called for changes
in terms of integrating the educational continuum, need
for evaluation and research, new methods of fi nancing,
leadership importance, social accountability, use of
technology, alignment with healthcare delivery and sets
directions for the healthcare workforce reinforcing the
recommendations of CanMEDS, GMC(UK), ACGME/
ABMS and IOM highlighted earlier
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Written by Brian S McGowan, PhD
Dr. McGowan has served in leadership positions in numerous medical educational organizations and commercial supporters and is a Fellow of the Alliance (FACEhp). He founded the Outcomes Standardization Project, launched and hosted the Alliance Podcast, and most recently launched and hosts the JCEHP Emerging Best Practices in CPD podcast. In 2012 he Co-Founded ArcheMedX, Inc, a healthcare informatics and e-learning company to apply his research in practice.
