Cohen Jordan J
Department of Medicine and Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
Perspect Biol Med. 2011 Winter;54(1):61-7. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2011.0008.
Medical educators are facing a challenge today that is quite analogous to that addressed by Abraham Flexner, namely how to transform a legacy system of education that is no longer preparing future physicians adequately to meet contemporary expectations and responsibilities. In facing up this challenge, however, today's educators not only must equip students to deal effectively with the rapidly changing paradigms in health care and medical practice, they also must adapt their curricula and pedagogical methods to the demanding new paradigms of medical education. Their success in addressing these dual imperatives will determine whether the educational transformations currently underway will have as momentous an effect on the public's health as did those stimulated by Flexner a century ago.
当今，医学教育工作者面临着一项挑战，这与亚伯拉罕·弗莱克斯纳所应对的挑战颇为相似，即如何变革一个传统教育体系，该体系已无法充分培养未来的医生以满足当代的期望和职责。然而，面对这一挑战，当今的教育工作者不仅必须使学生具备有效应对医疗保健和医疗实践中迅速变化的范式的能力，还必须使其课程和教学方法适应医学教育中严苛的新范式。他们在应对这双重要求方面的成功将决定当前正在进行的教育变革是否会像一个世纪前弗莱克斯纳所推动的变革那样，对公众健康产生重大影响。
