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Medical Education in an Era of Health-Care Reform
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 54, Number 1, Winter 2011
- pp. 61-67
- 10.1353/pbm.2011.0008
- Article
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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.