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Australian medical education in a time of change: a view from the University of Sydney
Author(s) -
Sefton Ann Jervie
Publication year - 1995
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.1365-2923.1995.tb02827.x
Subject(s) - medical education , institution , medical school , higher education , medicine , family medicine , sociology , political science , social science , law
SUMMARY In 1991, vigorous debate was regenerated in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney about the desirability of changing the traditional 6‐year undergraduate medical programme to a 4‐year, graduate model. Similar discussion occurred at the same time largely independently in two other Australian medical schools (at Flinders University and the University of Queensland). After a year of active investigation and consideration, all three made the decision to proceed. Although the specific reasons driving each institution differed somewhat, some concerns were common to all three. I here review the history of the process of change, the strategies used to encourage discussion and the major issues for the Medical Faculty at the University of Sydney.