TY - JOUR
T1 - Reforming graduate medical education
AU - Ludmerer, Kenneth M.
AU - Johns, Michael M.E.
PY - 2005/9/7
Y1 - 2005/9/7
N2 - Because of the traditional subordination of education to service, graduate medical education (GME) in the United States has never realized its full educational potential. This article suggests 4 strategies for reasserting the primacy of education in GME: limit the number of patients house officers manage at one time, relieve the resident staff of noneducational chores, improve educational content, and ease emotional stresses. Achieving these goals will require regulatory reform, adequate funding, and institutional competency in the use of educational resources. Modern medicine grows ever more complex. The need to address the deficiencies of GME is urgent.
AB - Because of the traditional subordination of education to service, graduate medical education (GME) in the United States has never realized its full educational potential. This article suggests 4 strategies for reasserting the primacy of education in GME: limit the number of patients house officers manage at one time, relieve the resident staff of noneducational chores, improve educational content, and ease emotional stresses. Achieving these goals will require regulatory reform, adequate funding, and institutional competency in the use of educational resources. Modern medicine grows ever more complex. The need to address the deficiencies of GME is urgent.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=24344496130&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1001/jama.294.9.1083
DO - 10.1001/jama.294.9.1083
M3 - Article
C2 - 16145029
AN - SCOPUS:24344496130
VL - 294
SP - 1083
EP - 1087
JO - Journal of the American Medical Association
JF - Journal of the American Medical Association
SN - 0098-7484
IS - 9
ER -