Aust Health Rev. 2000;23(4):43-59.
The winds of change world-wide have swept medical education in the last fifteen years. Today, Australia's medical students are older and drawn from more diverse socio-economic, ethnic and geographic backgrounds than twenty years ago, and there is now an equal mix of men and women in medical school. Admission policies have been rewritten to broaden access with a range of entry options now available including direct entry from high school and graduate entry following a first degree. Curricula have been revised and modes of learning transformed. This paper describes these changes and discusses the implications for medical schools and for planning the future workforce.
在过去的十五年里，全球变革之风席卷了医学教育领域。如今，与二十年前相比，澳大利亚医学生的年龄更大，且来自更加多样化的社会经济、种族和地理背景，现在医学院中男女比例相当。录取政策已被重新修订，通过一系列现有的入学途径来扩大招生范围，包括高中直接入学和获得第一学位后的研究生入学。课程已经修订，学习模式也已转变。本文描述了这些变化，并讨论了其对医学院以及未来劳动力规划的影响。
