Editorial
What's happening in undergraduate medical education?
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Most hospital doctors in the UK will have noticed that something is happening to undergraduate medical education. They may note that students seem to know less of the traditional `hard science' pre-clinical subjects, but spend more time on `softer' subjects apparently of doubtful relevance. They may also have been puzzled by a new language: talk of `aims and objectives', `formative and summative assessment', `learning opportunities' and acronyms like `OSCE'.
Many will ask, since the doctors produced in the past, including
themselves, seem satisfactory, why there is this need for change and
where has it come from? They may also ask, as good scientists, for the
evidence that these new ideas are better. They will, however, find
that, unlike other aspects of their work, it is rather difficult to get
very satisfactory answers to these questions. It is generally possible
for most doctors, faced with a clinical problem and access to
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