Reform of undergraduate medical teaching in the United Kingdom: a triumph of evangelism over common sense

摘要

1. Traditional medical training produces doctors with a sound knowledge base that allows them to practise across a broad spectrum of medicine 2. Reformers aim to cut the student's factual knowledge base, while replacing traditional teaching methods with student led and problem based approaches 3. There is no evidence that the "new" strategies will produce better doctors, and a risk mat students with inadequate knowledge will become poor clinicians 4. A rigorous comparison of "traditional" versus "new" curriculums is urgently needed to determine the best strategy for training doctors.