Medical Education Theme Issue 2013: Call for Papers

• Autores: R. M. Golub
• Localización: JAMA: the journal of the American Medical Association, ISSN 0098-7484, Vol. 309, Nº. 8, 2013, pág. 829
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.-Sir Claus Moser Medical education is expensive. In contrast to other items of great cost, arguments against its necessity and importance are unlikely. Nevertheless, the value of current educational approaches can be questioned, whether on a large scale such as the length of medical training1 or on a more intimate scale such as length of attending physician inpatient rotations.2 Ignorance about how best to deliver medical education may not only cost dollars in lost efficiency in training, but may produce physicians who are not able to provide optimal medical care for their patients. The best hope for reducing such ignorance is high-quality research in medical education. To be done well, such research also costs money; the strongest research in medical education has had substantial funding.3- 4 But the large gaps in knowledge about medical education (related in part to limited research training, resources, and funding) are certainly costing money too.