Medical Education – A Changing World

Prof Hamish McKenzie

Head of Division of Medical Education

Medical Education - A Changing World

• GMC policy – Tomorrow’s Doctors• New medical schools in England• Emergence of a research culture and evidence

base in education• Collaboration between schools – SDMEG,

ASME, IMU• NHS re-organisation/Modernising Medical

Careers• High profile events – Shipman, Bristol Heart

Enquiry

Hot Topics in Medical Education

• Outcome based, top-down curricular design– ensures generic outcomes are covered somewhere– bottom up model without a strategic overview makes

this difficult

• Attempt to make “hidden curriculum” explicit:– communication skills, team working, professionalism,

work life balance

• Knowledge, skills and attitudes – reduce factual overload (“the cult of coverage”)

Hot Topics in Medical Education

• Student centred learning (PBL)• Assessment – reliability and validity,

standard setting, national licensing exam• Medical humanities• Portfolios – Personal and Professional

Development• Professionalising teaching – educational

research, PG certificates, teaching fellowships