Printer-friendly versionCarnegie’s pre-release of the findings of Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform (Jossey-Bass 2010) at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) annual meeting in Boston this week drew a standing room only crowd of 700 or more.
Presenting were three of the book’s authors, David Irby, Molly Cooke and Bridget O’Brien, and the chief academic officer of the AAMC, John Prescott. The book is the culmination of a five-year study of medical education in the U.S. The authors called for “medical training for a habit of mind and a form of expertise that involves not only doing the job well, but also doing the job better.” They said that through the release of the Carnegie study, they sought in part to encourage physicians and medical educators to “actively seek out opportunities for improvement in their own patient care practices, in their contributions to policy or education or research, and in the systems, teams, or institutions in which they work and serve patients.”
The book’s four key recommendations for improvement in medical education are to:
- more tightly integrate knowledge and experience
- create habits of inquiry and improvement
- standardize learning outcomes and individualize the learning process
- focus on professional identity formation
Powerpoint slides from the presentation are available on the medical study resources page. The book is scheduled to be released in June 2010.
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