Undergraduate medical education

Abstract

In summary, although I acknowledge the educational hierarchy's efforts to empower our students to own their learning strategies, I fear the methods are over regimented. I believe strategies in medical education must be catholic, from apprenticeship role-modelling to liberal university research triggered teaching. (Our liberal university hospital environment may therefore need to negotiate exemption from 'intellectual property' restrictions.10) These different intellectual climates need to mix so that our students in university hospitals become not only imbued with mechanics and art of medicine and surgery, but above all are filled with the appreciation of hypothesis testing. They will then become informed, discriminating and flexible healers in a rapidly changing scientific, cultural and economic environment.