American medical education at a crossroads

Arthur M Feldman; Marschall S Runge; Joe G N Garcia; Arthur H Rubenstein

doi:10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2039

American medical education at a crossroads

Sci Transl Med. 2015 Apr 29;7(285):285fs17. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2039.

Authors

Arthur M Feldman¹, Marschall S Runge², Joe G N Garcia³, Arthur H Rubenstein⁴

Affiliations

¹ Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA. arthur.feldman@tuhs.temple.edu.
² University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA.
³ Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
⁴ University of Pennsylvania Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA.

PMID: 25925678
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aaa2039

Abstract

New medical-education models in which research plays a modest role could engender a two-tiered educational system, cause a reduction in the physician-scientist pipeline, and diminish the translation of biomedical advances.

MeSH terms

Education, Medical / organization & administration*
Models, Educational
United States