Premium
The medical school as a social organization †
Author(s) -
JEFFERYS MARGOT,
ELSTON MARY ANN
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1989.tb01539.x
Subject(s) - medical education , medical school , medline , psychology , family medicine , medicine , political science , law
Summary. The paper reviews sociological research on the medical school as a social organization from the 1950s to the present. Despite significant differences between societies in the organization of medical education, such research has been largely confined to the USA. Some reasons for this are suggested. Ways in which the climate and organization of medical schools—at least in Great Britain — have changed in the recent past are described as well as reasons for such changes. It is argued that more research into these processes and into the organizational obstacles to change, including cross‐national studies, are needed.