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Progress in medical education
Author(s) -
Harden Ronald M
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.tb02898.x
Subject(s) - vision , medical education , curriculum , speculation , process (computing) , psychology , medicine , engineering ethics , pedagogy , sociology , computer science , business , engineering , finance , anthropology , operating system
SUMMARY Progress in implementing the World Federation for Medical Education Edinburgh Recommendations in all three phases of education — undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing — is dependent upon recognition of the need to manage dissatisfaction with the present, to have appropriate visions for the future, to have a management strategy for implementing change and to be cost‐effective. The extent to which progress can be anticipated is reflected in the formula: Change = (Dissatisfaction × Vision × Process) > Cost We have to aim for a curriculum that will be more convenient, relevant, individualized to the need of each student or trainee, diagnostic — emphasizing self‐assessment, interesting — taking account of motivation of students and doctors, systematic or planned and allowing for speculation and a consideration of the grey areas or uncertainties of medicine as well as the certainties.