Gordon James A, Oriol Nancy E
Harvard Medical School, and faculty, Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA.
Acad Med. 2008 May;83(5):521-3. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e31816bdd6c.
Medicine is a uniquely powerful platform for teaching science and ethics, technology and humanity, life and death. Yet, society has historically limited medical education to a select few, and only after an advanced course of premedical studies. In an era when biomedical literacy is increasingly viewed as a national imperative, the authors hypothesized that advanced instruction in medicine could be intellectually transformative among a broad range of young people. Using high-fidelity patient simulators, a group of college and high school students was immersed in a weeklong course designed to replicate the practice of modern medicine. On the basis of the students' reported experiences, the authors feel that patient simulation can foster forceful interest in the life sciences at an early age. Such efforts could catalyze a significant expansion of interest in biomedical science among students nationwide.
医学是一个独特的强大平台，用于教授科学与伦理、技术与人性、生与死。然而，历史上社会一直将医学教育限制在少数经过高级医学预科学习的人身上。在一个生物医学素养日益被视为国家要务的时代，作者们推测，医学方面的高级教学可能会在广大年轻人中产生智力上的转变。通过使用高保真患者模拟器，一组大学生和高中生参加了一个为期一周的课程，该课程旨在模拟现代医学实践。根据学生们报告的经历，作者们认为患者模拟能够在早年激发对生命科学的浓厚兴趣。这样的努力可能会促使全国学生对生物医学科学的兴趣大幅增长。
