Background Competency-based medical education (CBME) received increased attention in
the early 2000s by educators, clinicians, and policy makers as a way to address concerns …

Medical education as we know it today spans three sectors: undergraduate, postgraduate,
and the continuing professional development of established clinicians. Medical education is …

Background In 2010, coincident with the 100th anniversary of Flexner's sentinel report, the
Carnegie Foundation published an updated review of North American medical education …

This book presents ideas, evidence and guidance for those interested in using the most
recent advances in knowledge about learning and human development to enhance medical …

The hidden curriculum (HC) in health professional education comprises the organizational
and institutional contexts and cultural subtexts that shape how and what students learn …

Issue: Practices of systemic and structural racism that advantage some groups over others
are embedded in American society. Institutions of higher learning are increasingly being …

Responsibility and professionalism are increasingly issues of concern for professional
associations, employers and educators alike. When bad things happen, professionals are …

Problem-based medical education is based in a biomedical worldview that works to
entrench deterministic ways of thinking about socioculturally-influenced health disparities in …

Context Medical education is neither simple nor stable, and is highly contextualised. Hence,
ways of perceiving multiple connections and complexity are fundamental when seeking to …

Context In 1988, the Edinburgh Declaration challenged medical teachers, curriculum
designers and leaders to make an organised effort to change medical education for the …