Better learning, better doctors, better community: How transforming clinical education can help repair society

摘要

This article is part of a series in Medical Education entitled 'Dialogue', which features transcriptions of e-mail discussions focused on a current issue in the field, between two scholars who have approached the issue from different perspectives. For further details, see the editorial published in Med Educ 2012;46(9):826-7. In this contribution, Dr David Hirsh (Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School/Cambridge Health Alliance) and Professor Paul Worley (Dean, School of Medicine, Flinders University) discuss how modern transformations in the delivery of medical education address the goal of social accountability.