美国医学院校扩容进程

21世纪前二十年将成为继上世纪六七十年代以来Flexner报告后美国医学教育第二次扩容高峰.本文就此对两次扩容进程中的共同问题进行回顾:费用、国家卫生政策、毕业后医学教育、基于社区的临床医学教育、多学科整合的专业卫生教育和保健服务以及扩容管理等等.此外,2007年出现的新问题有:毕业医学生就业方向多元化,四年制医学教育分校区的建立.

Medical School Expansion in America

The first two decades of the 21st century may well be viewed as the 2nd great expansion of post-Flexnerian medical education in the United States since 1960s and 1970s. A review of the literature from that period indicates the common challenges: the cost of expansion, national health policy, graduate medical education, community -based clinical education, interdisciplinary health professions education and care delivery, and the management of expansion efforts. Two new problems include: graduating a diverse ...