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Infusing the Interdisciplinary into Medical/ Health Sciences Education: Vitamins or Vaccines

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dc.creator Nilesh Chatterjee
dc.date 2002-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:23:32Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:23:32Z
dc.identifier 1087-2981
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/b61cee396b5c4b089e4a2aa0559fc32a
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/20977
dc.description Academic medical institutions have responded to recent changes and challenges confronting the health care system with various recommendations for curricular reform; many grouped under the rubric of interdisciplinary training. The ultimate goal is to create physicians, with mastery over specialized knowledge, who can practice cost-effective, humanized medicine. This article elaborates a conceptual classification system that categorizes curricular reform recommendations into one of two approaches Vitamins or Vaccines that highlights differences in the processes of curricular reform programs. Programs seeking the same goal may create different types of practitioners depending on the approach dominating the professional training and socialization process. The Vitamins approach is reactive, supplemental, and incremental, often imparting instruction instead of education. The Vaccines approach is proactive, addresses fundamental factors, and seeks long-term solutions from a preventive perspective. As educators, our choice of approach, Vitamins or Vaccines, for curricular reform will determine how academia prepares physicians for the future.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Medical Education Online
dc.relation http://www.med-ed-online.org/f0000033.htm
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1087-2981
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Medical Education Online, Vol 7, Pp 3- (2002)
dc.subject medical education
dc.subject health professional education
dc.subject peer-reviewed
dc.subject Basic science education
dc.subject Clinical science education
dc.subject Leaning theory
dc.subject Ethics/professionalism
dc.subject Community-based
dc.subject curriculum reform
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.title Infusing the Interdisciplinary into Medical/ Health Sciences Education: Vitamins or Vaccines
dc.type article


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