Woodward C A, Ferrier B M
J Med Educ. 1982 Apr;57(4):294-302. doi: 10.1097/00001888-198204000-00004.
The 1970s have been described as an era of the rise and fall of three-year medical school programs. The present paper describes how graduates of one of the few North American medical schools that has retained its three-year curriculum view the problem-based curriculum and its length. On the whole the graduates of McMaster University School of Medicine were very positive about their undergraduate medical education. Many more of its features were endorsed as strengths than deficiencies. Eighty-two percent of McMaster graduates reported they would enroll in a three-year curriculum if they were entering medical school again, and they said that the advantages of a three-year curriculum outweight its disadvantages. The majority of graduates would return to a problem-based medical curriculum: 58 percent to an unaltered curriculum, 3 percent to one altered slightly, and 8 percent to one spread over four years. Of those that would not return, most chose a somewhat more structured curriculum, while very few chose traditional curricula.
20世纪70年代被描述为三年制医学院课程兴衰的时代。本文描述了北美少数几所保留三年制课程的医学院之一的毕业生如何看待基于问题的课程及其时长。总体而言，麦克马斯特大学医学院的毕业生对他们的本科医学教育非常满意。被认可为优势的课程特点远多于劣势。82%的麦克马斯特大学毕业生表示，如果他们再次进入医学院，他们会选择三年制课程，并且他们说三年制课程的优点超过缺点。大多数毕业生会选择回归基于问题的医学课程：58%选择不变的课程，3%选择略有改变的课程，8%选择四年制的课程。在那些不会回归的人中，大多数选择了结构稍强的课程，而很少有人选择传统课程。
