Teaching pharmacology in an innovative medical curriculum: challenges of integration, technology, and future training.

摘要

The Flexner report of 19101'2 set the stage for significant improvements in the growth and development of the individual subject disciplines that made up medicine. Aided by the chip technology in the latter half of the century, research grew without bounds and with it the.individual disciplines and the body of knowledge required from each to produce the composite, fit-to-practice medical doctor. This posed serious challenges with regards to accommodating the ever-increasing knowledge base within the fixed timeframe for training the medical doctor.