THE EVOLVING FACE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION
Abstract
Change for betterment is the need of life and
“those who look only to the past or the present are
certain to miss the future” narrated by John F. Kennedy.
Like all other processes in life, medical education is
not static and evolving rapidly. However, to trade our
technique to teaching and learning is not easy for we
need to depart part of ourselves and our personal
experiences as trainees and trainers. During last three
decades, medical education has evolved enormously
in the western and few Asian countries. The situation
is not much impressive in our country except for few
medical colleges. We still rely on traditional style of
teaching where knowledge is acquired without proper
comprehension and its significance in the clinical
environment. Unfortunately, most of our students
become rote learners at the end.
The ultimate focus of evolution is student centered
learning in contrast to teacher centered knowledge. This
teaching technique should be versatile and must fulfill
the learning needs of every learner. The main advantage
of this adult based learning (andragogy) is that learners
preserve knowledge for more time frames. Andragogy
assist learners to become independent and self-directed
learners. Moreover, the learners also become more
proficient and more responsive to the ever-growing and
demanding medical specialty and health-care system.
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