This article explores the nature of fashions in medical education and identifies some of the questions about medical education that such fashions raise. What con- stitutes a fashion in a professional or academic discipline? What steps can practitioners and academics in medical education take to change a trend into an important step forward in the development of a discipline? We define a fashion in medical education as an Approach to education that is based primarily on social Influences, in contrast to approaches based on Established educational principles and theories, criti- Cally evaluated experiences, or the results of valid Research.
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