Medical Education for the Future

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-1

   PDF

2. Medical Education—A Democratising Force for Medicine

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

      PDF

3. MEDICAL EDUCATION – A DEMOCRATISING FORCE FOR MEDICINE

   1. Medical Education as Patient

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 3-17

   2. Beyond Practical Reasoning

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 19-31

   3. Learning from Learning Theory

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 33-42

   4. Socio-Cultural Learning Theories

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 43-60

4. Identity, Power and Location in Medical Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

      PDF

5. IDENTITY, POWER AND LOCATION IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

   1. Producing Doctors

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 63-79

   2. New Forms of Identity in a Runaway World of Medicine

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 81-91

   3. The Medical Educator and the Clinical Teacher

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 93-105

   4. Identity Construction of the Medical Educator Through Learning and Writing

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 107-118

   5. Power in Medical Education

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 119-134

   6. Place Matters: Location in Medical Education

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 135-152

   7. Learning by Simulation and the Simulation of Learning

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 153-169

   8. Global Medical Education—A Post-Colonial Dilemma

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 171-184

6. Medical Education Research—A Democratising Force for Medical Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185

      PDF

7. MEDICAL EDUCATION RESEARCH – A DEMOCRATISING FORCE FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION

   1. Let’s Get Real: Medical Students Learning from, with and About Patients

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 187-200

   2. Texts, Authoring and Reading in Medical Education

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 201-213

   3. Lack, Trajectories and Ruptures in Medical Education Research

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 215-225

   4. A Framework for Medical Education Research: Cultures, Contexts and Concepts

      • Alan Bleakley, John Bligh, Julie Browne

      Pages 227-239

The purpose of medical education is to benefit patients by improving the work of doctors. Patient centeredness is a centuries old concept in medicine, but there is still a long way to go before medical education can truly be said to be patient centered. Ensuring the centrality of the patient is a particular challenge during medical education, when students are still forming an identity as trainee doctors, and conservative attitudes towards medicine and education are common amongst medical teachers, making it hard to bring about improvements. How can teachers, policy makers, researchers and doctors bring about lasting change that will restore the patient to the heart of medical education? The authors, experienced medical educators, explore the role of the patient in medical education in terms of identity, power and location. Using innovative political, philosophical, cultural and literary critical frameworks that have previously never been applied so consistently to the field, the authors provide a fundamental reconceptualisation of medical teaching and learning, with an emphasis upon learning at the bedside and in the clinic. They offer a wealth of practical and conceptual insights into the three-way relationship between patients, students and teachers, setting out a radical and exciting approach to a medical education for the future.

“The authors provide us with a masterful reconceptualization of medical education that challenges traditional notions about teaching and learning.  The book critiques current practices and offers new approaches to medical education based upon sociocultural research and theory.  This thought provoking narrative advances the case for reform and is a must read for anyone involved in medical education.”  -

 

David M. Irby, PhD, Vice Dean for Education,University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; and co-author of Educating Physicians: A Call for Reform of Medical School and Residency

"This book is a truly visionary contribution to the Flexner centenary. It is compulsory reading for the medical educationalist with a serious concern for the future - and for the welfare of patients and learners in the here and now."

 

Professor Tim Dornan, University of Manchester Medical School and Maastricht University Graduate School of Health Professions Education.

• Medical Education
• Medical Education Research
• learning and instruction

• , College of Medicine and Dentistry, Universies of Plymouth and Exeter, Plymouth, United Kingdom

  Alan Bleakley

• , School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  John Bligh

• , School of Postgraduate Medical and Denta, Cardiff University, Heath Park, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  Julie Browne

Policies and ethics