ABSTRACT

This book explores and offers solutions to critical issues in graduate medical education, including how students are taught and evaluated and how their educational programs are funded. It will be key reading for medical educators, policy makers and all individuals and organizations with an interest in medical education.

chapter 1|12 pages

Graduate Medical Education

Then and Now*

chapter 2|16 pages

Credentialing in Medicine

Protecting the Public*

chapter 3|14 pages

Teaching and Learning

Establishing an Educational Continuum

chapter 4|14 pages

The Evaluation of Residents

Assessing Competent Performance

chapter 6|10 pages

Science and Service

The Pillars of Professionalism*

chapter 7|12 pages

No Tempests, No Teapots

Fostering Research in Medical Education*

chapter 8|6 pages

Psychomotor Education

Point and Counterpoint*

chapter 9|12 pages

Teaching by Residents

Passing It On*

chapter 10|8 pages

Mentoring Young Physicians

The Need for Nurture*

chapter 11|10 pages

Funding Graduate Medical Education

Who Will Pay?*

chapter 12|6 pages

Manpower

Supply and Distribution

chapter 13|4 pages

Obligations of Residents

With Rights Come Responsibilities

chapter 14|14 pages

Recommendations

What Then Must We Do?

chapter 15|4 pages

Afterword