From rote to reasoning: The paradigm shift required in medical entrance examination and beyond!

Medical education is in need of a drastic change in its system not only at the earliest stage of selection of potential doctors, but also thereafter in progressing them through various subjects and even later when they strive to pursue their specialty or superspecialty training. At all stages right from schooling to college and then to professional education, the Indian system relies heavily on rote-based learning, requiring extensive mugging up of a bucket load of facts, waiting to be vomited out on the day of the examination without the need for understanding the facts at all. The one who does this best wins this race for selection and also to become a person who is supposed to have skills of judgment for treatment of the human race and save them from disease and infirmity and even take crucial spot decisions to save them from their illness and possible death!