A fascinating overview of innovations in US medical schools appears in Inside Higher Ed this week. These changes include competency-based outcomes, increased use of technology-mediated learning (including virtual patient simulations), small group learning and problem-based learning.
If these innovations are hitting our medical schools that train some of the "best and brightest," then it must be time to take them to the masses in undergraduate education and even our middle and high schools. One comment (from the University of Connecticut!!) indicates that the use of virtual simulations has reached undergraduate nursing programs. I bet middle schoolers would love it even more.
Kudos to Inside Higher Ed for another great article you wouldn't see anywhere else.
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