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Rethinking Medical Education: Why are you starting this new blog now? - Part 1
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Why are you starting this new blog now? Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Why are you starting this blog now? Several professional and personal factors coalesce to make this an appealing time for me to be creating and maintaining this blog. The main recent developments are:. The improving quality and expanding range of educational research. The arrival of "Web 2.0" (see below). My fuller answer, in 2 parts:. Distinguished journ...
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Rethinking Medical Education
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Medical school curriculum - Part 1:. We must do better than we’re now doing*. The educated usually find themselves equipped. To live in a world that no longer exists. US writer on social issues; 1902–1983. Curricular variations are here and growing. Himself bemoaned that disappointing situation. Many serious flaws from the past remain. We assume we know what all learners will need before we kno...
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Rethinking Medical Education: Do we learn these lessons from being teachers?
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Do we learn these lessons from being teachers? Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Do we learn worthy lessons from being teachers? Below is a Letter to the Editor of the US newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, published on their website on 11-12-08 (shortly after the election of Barack Obama), and accessed the following day, from:. The most important successful teacher characteristic he embodies is that he knows how to be in t...
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Rethinking Medical Education
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Medical school curriculum - Part 2:. Designing an appropriate curriculum.*. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent,. But the one most responsive to change. English naturalist; 1809–1882). In the following discussion,. Of this curriculum series. Some of our inherited curricular problems are especially serious and are long overdue for correction. We need to ...
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Rethinking Medical Education: How do I add my comments to this blog?
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. How do I add my comments to this blog? Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. How do I add my comments in response to what I read on this blog? Please offer comments on any of the following:. Your thoughts about and your reactions to what you read. Do you agree or disagree? Do you find it relevant to your situation? If not, in what ways? Are there any topics included here that you feel don't belong? Please be constructive. This ...
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Rethinking Medical Education: Some readings for your consideration
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Some readings for your consideration. Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Some readings for your consideration. I hope you find some fresh ideas and new directions here. I will supplement and refine this list from time to time, and I will add brief, specific commentaries as my time permits. Donovan MS, Bransford JD, Pellegrino JW. How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. Washington, DC: National Academies, 2000. New Hori...
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Rethinking Medical Education: Might Apple Inc Revolutionize Education?
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Might Apple Inc Revolutionize Education? Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Apple’s Education Announcement:. A potentially large step into the future for textbooks and learning. 19 Jan. 2012), Apple Inc introduced three initiatives. Intended to "reinvent the textbook” and enhance learning. Did they live up to my dream of yesterday. No Instead, they surpassed it! Highly dynamic, including audio, graphics, animations, and videos.
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Rethinking Medical Education
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. A "dangerous phrase" (and a tribute). Grace Murray Hopper, PhD (1906-1992). Some observations about change and innovation from an authentic pioneer. Another quotation that has also been attributed to Grace Hopper, which is also relevant to innovators, especially in some organizations: "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.". A small side story of possible interest:. Permi...
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Rethinking Medical Education: Why are you starting this new blog now? - Part 2
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Questions, observations, and recommendations toward reform of the process and content. Why are you starting this new blog now? Hilliard Jason, MD, EdD. Why are you starting this blog now? Have you seen Part 1 of my answer to this question? If not, you can go to it here. P artly, I'm starting this blog out of my impatience with the slowness of the progress I've witnessed. Why does change come so slowly? What makes this time different? For additional information about Web 2.0, visit this. Our tendency to r...
