US: Personalising medical practitioner training

A hundred years after the release of the Flexner Report, which set many of the standards that still guide North American medical education, a report published last week aims to stimulate reforms to reshape medical schools and residency programmes for the next century, writes Jennifer Epstein for Inside Higher Ed.

Commissioned by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the same group that sponsored Abraham Flexner's early-20th century examination of all 155 medical schools in the United States and Canada, the new report lays out the case for drastic reconsideration of how North American medical education works. Published in book form as Educating Physicians: A call for reform of medical school and residency (Wiley), the study is the culmination of four years of research and site visits to medical schools and teaching hospitals. It calls for major change and innovation - "new approaches to shaping the minds, hands and hearts of physicians."
Full report on the Inside Higher Ed site