A new epoch for health professionals' education.

摘要

The history of education is not a continuous straight line of progress. Like any discipline, it is marked by periods of extraordinary advance, more or less intelligent reflection, and stultifying stagnation. The history of education among the health professions is no exception. After a century of rapid progress (initiated in the western medical tradition by the 1910 Flexner Report), consolidation, but more recent ossification, health professionals' education is poised once again to enter a new epoch of transformation.The final report, in The Lancet today, of a global independent Commission on the Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century concludes that "all health professionals in all countries should be educated to mobilise knowledge andto engage in critical reasoning and ethical conduct so that they are competent to participate in patient and population-centred health systems as members of locally responsive and globally connected teams."