Introduction: Educating the Physician of the 21st Century: Providing the Slate for Medical Schools to Write On

IAMSE Web Seminar - If I Had a Clean Slate ... New Medical School Curricula

Date: September 17, 2009
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm ET
Registration: http://iamse.org/development/2009/was_registration.htm



Introduction: Educating the Physician of the 21st Century: Providing the Slate for Medical Schools to Write On

Almost 100 years ago, a teacher named Abraham Flexner was commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation to review medical education in the United States and Canada and using a clean slate, to write the future of medical education. The slate that Mr. Flexner created has influenced medical education for the past century. Over the past 100 years, many elements of the slate have gotten smeared and some have disappeared altogether. It is now time to wipe the slate clean and create a new picture of medical education. During this session we will imagine that we now have the same opportunity that Flexner had (but without funding from the Carnegie Foundation) - to develop the approach to medical education in the 21st century. What will we include on the slate; what should we include on the slate? What does medical education in the 21st century look like? What would we retain from Flexner's slate? What would we erase and add to the slate? What questions was Flexner wrestling with at the beginning of the 20th century and how have those questions changed, or remained the same, at the beginning of the 21st century? We will consider a brief history of medical education - how we got where we are today - and then explore the opportunities and the challenges facing medical educators as we develop a slate for medical education in the 21st century.

Presenter: M. Brownell Anderson, M.Ed.

For additional details: http://iamse.org/development/2009/was_2009_fall.htm