TY - JOUR
T1 - Time and medical education
AU - Ludmerer, Kenneth M.
PY - 2000/1/4
Y1 - 2000/1/4
N2 - An indispensable ingredient of good medical education is the presence of enough time to allow educational objectives to be met. The length of study needs to be sufficient for learners to acquire the necessary factual, reasoning, judgmental, and behavioral skills. For medical education to be conducted at the highest level, learners also need sufficient contact time with patients, and faculty need enough time to teach in a thoughtful, Socratic fashion. As the 21st century approaches, time is disappearing from the process of teaching and learning medicine, with disturbing implications for the quality of education. Medical educators in the future must work as hard to defend the availability of sufficient time as they do to acquire new buildings and research funds.
AB - An indispensable ingredient of good medical education is the presence of enough time to allow educational objectives to be met. The length of study needs to be sufficient for learners to acquire the necessary factual, reasoning, judgmental, and behavioral skills. For medical education to be conducted at the highest level, learners also need sufficient contact time with patients, and faculty need enough time to teach in a thoughtful, Socratic fashion. As the 21st century approaches, time is disappearing from the process of teaching and learning medicine, with disturbing implications for the quality of education. Medical educators in the future must work as hard to defend the availability of sufficient time as they do to acquire new buildings and research funds.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0034602729&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7326/0003-4819-132-1-200001040-00005
DO - 10.7326/0003-4819-132-1-200001040-00005
M3 - Review article
C2 - 10627247
AN - SCOPUS:0034602729
SN - 0003-4819
VL - 132
SP - 25
EP - 28
JO - Annals of internal medicine
JF - Annals of internal medicine
IS - 1
ER -