ABSTRACT
A source of the tenacious grip of reductionism is that the attendant move to specialization has enormous economic incentives behind it, at least in the US system. This power is very hard to resist industrial complex." Reductionism and specialization are fully evident in the curricula of our medical schools, and the training of other health care professionals. In the case of patient care, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement now crystallizes its mission as a "triple aim" of reduced overall costs of care, superior patient experience of care, and superior quality of care. Many innovative clinicians have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve all three at the same time. Surely authors must have the same aim for how they educate future health care practitioners – reduced overall costs of education, superior student experience of education, and superior practitioners as our end product.
