Fifteen educational innovations in academic medicine are described in relation to 5
environmental trends. The first trend, demands for increased clinical productivity, has …

Medical education is at a crossroads. Although unique features exist at the undergraduate,
graduate, and continuing education levels, shared aspects of all three levels are especially …

Changes in the financing and delivery of health care, most notably the growth of managed
care, are demanding physicians with knowledge, skills, and atti-tudes vastly different from …

Purpose To review the recommendations of 15 US and Canadian reports, published in the
last decade, that call for significant change in medical education. Method The author …

MEDICINE is changing rapidly and at an increasing rate. When today's students are in
midcareer, medical practice will be far different. Medical educators must find ways to help …

This paper looks at five focal terms in education–curriculum, environment, climate, quality
and change–and the interrelationships and dynamics bemeen and among them. It …

Abstract The Academy of Medical Educators at the University of California, San Francisco
(UCSF), was established in 2000 to (1) foster excellence in teaching,(2) support teachers of …

This paper looks at five focal terms in education-curriculum, environment, climate, quality
and change-and the interrelationships and dynamics between and among them. It …

US health care is changing, and it will continue to change across multiple dimensions: a
different mix of patients; more ambulatory, chronic care and less acute, inpatient care; an …

As physicians' requirements for knowledge and skills evolve, medical educators often
encounter the need for new curricula. This article presents an approach to identifying …