Containing multitudes: Medical education 2013

摘要

An experiment: without any deliberation, write down what immediately comes to mind when you hear the phrase “medical education.” Ask a number of colleagues to do the same and compare answers. The results are likely to be very disparate, depending perhaps on career stage, or even more on the types of teaching activities in which each person is engaged. This is one of the challenges of medical education research: it is extremely diverse.