Chatzistamou Ioulia
Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA.
J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2024 Nov 22;11:23821205241300944. doi: 10.1177/23821205241300944. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
Over the last decades, the amount of knowledge that is required from learners in the medical field has become incredibly wide and deep, posing a burden for all stakeholders including medical schools, training hospitals, students, and society. The trajectory that has been established will soon render medical education ineffective, both from the perspective of the students who will not be able to productively internalize and effectively integrate the information they receive, and of the institutions and medical programs that will be unable to keep up with the pace of the medical progress and the relevant subject matter that needs to be taught. To address this burden, sooner than later, bold actions should be taken toward the radical transformation of the medical curriculum both in terms of its duration and its implementation and of the type of knowledge that the medical students will need to excel in, as a prerequisite for their subsequent training.
在过去几十年里，医学领域对学习者所需的知识量变得极其广泛和深入，给包括医学院校、教学医院、学生和社会在内的所有利益相关者都带来了负担。已确立的发展轨迹很快将使医学教育变得无效，这不仅是从那些无法有效地将所学信息内化并有效整合的学生的角度来看，也是从那些无法跟上医学进步步伐以及无法教授所需相关学科内容的机构和医学项目的角度来看。为了应对这一负担，应尽快采取大胆行动，对医学课程在时长、实施方式以及医学生为在后续培训中取得优异成绩所需掌握的知识类型方面进行彻底变革。
