The medical field is in a constant state of change and evolution, pushing medical schools to keep up with the latest education, techniques and research. All told, however, the majority…
Medical Schools
A Blue Ocean with Few Ships: Setting the Strategic Direction in an Emerging Market
Steven Combs | President and CEO, Maryland University of Integrative HealthWith an aging population, a growing cultural interest in health, fitness and wellbeing and a shortage of medical professionals, the medical education space is more in the limelight today than…
Major health systems across the United States are exploring their options in the medical education space in unprecedented ways. From partnering with medical schools to purchasing existing schools to simply…
The Benefits of Interdisciplinarity: Forging and Leveraging Relationships Across Campus
Paul George | Director for the Dual Degree Program in the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown UniversityLife, in general, is interdisciplinary. Airplanes cannot fly without engineers who build, mechanics who fix and pilots who fly. Taking care of patients requires teams of providers—physicians, nurses, pharmacists, medical…
Academic innovation, change and transformation. All are seen as vehicles to solve many of higher education’s challenges. Institutions are increasingly investing in such efforts. Approximately 10 percent of the American…
Access and Support Critical to Success for Traditionally Underserved Students
Maurizio Trevisan | Provost, The City College of New YorkHigher education institutions play a massive role in supporting economic growth and prosperity, but this cannot be an accidental by-product of their work. Entire communities tend to be underserved as…
In a recent article, Joyce De Leo shared her views on the seismic shift taking place in medical education. She pointed out that it is now time for change and…
Surveying the Road Ahead for American Medical Schools
Larry Gruppen | Chair of Medical Education at the School of Medicine, University of MichiganMedical education confronts many of the same challenges as other sectors of higher education, including affordability, access, and questions about its efficacy. However, as a domain that incorporates a high…
Medical education is undergoing a significant and much-needed transformation. For over 100 years the standard medical school curriculum has comprised two years of lecture-based science classes followed by two years…
Exploring the Possibility of a Common Core in Medical Education
Charles Prober | Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education at the School of Medicine, Stanford UniversityThe medical education space is immensely challenging, and demand for medical education is consistently rising. However, from institution to institution the medical curricula can vary widely, despite the similarity in…
Mayo Medical School is working on a national level to transform medical education curricula and delivery to prepare future physicians for the needs of their patients and the evolving health…
Future-Proofing Medical Education: Transitioning to a Competency Model
Tracy Bumsted | Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education in the School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science UniversityJust as the music and publishing industries have adapted to changing societal norms, lifestyles and emerging technology, so must health care and medical education. The health care delivery environment is…
This is the second installment of a two-part interview with Marc Triola. In the first part of the Q&A, Triola explained how the NYU School of Medicine is responding to…
Expanding Institutional Scope To Serve Students Better
Maurizio Trevisan | Provost, The City College of New YorkProviding a strong student and customer experience is a top priority for institutions and colleges across the higher education spectrum. After all, students are better able to focus on their…
Medical schools are uniquely designed to prepare professionals to enter a very specific professional field. As such, it’s critical for medical education leaders to constantly be aware of the needs…
Interdisciplinary Programming and the Pathway to Differentiation
Paul George | Director for the Dual Degree Program in the Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown UniversityThe medical education marketplace is immensely competitive and the number of institutions participating grows every academic year. While demand for medical education is growing annually, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for…
Competency-based education has been gaining momentum across the American higher education landscape over the past five years, but in the medical education field competencies have been king since 2000. That…
Uncovering and Highlighting a Niche to Stand Out in the Medical Education Space
Sonia Oyola | Co-Director of Family Medicine Clerkship at the Pritzker School of Medicine, University of ChicagoBeyond the rankings lists and brand reputations, it can be difficult to differentiate medical schools in today’s highly competitive medical education marketplace. What’s more, as increasing numbers of institutions introduce…
A powerful discriminator between the good and the exceptional biomedical institutions is the availability of resources to move in new directions rapidly and seamlessly. Large amounts of expendable funds and/or…
Medical MOOCs: Lessons Learned from the Trenches of Medical Education
Leonard White | Director of Education for the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke UniversityMassive open online courses (MOOCs) offer high-quality content from world-class universities to anyone with access to the worldwide web for free. Since their inception in 2012, much has been written…
Across higher education, traditional approaches to teaching are being revisited and revised to meet the expectations of today’s students. In some disciplines these alternative options are widespread and common while…
MOOCing the Mini Med
Helen Macfarlane | Director of Educational Technology at the School of Medicine, University of Colorado—Co-written by J. John Cohen | Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine— Why did we decide to end an outreach program that was wildly popular for 24 years? The…
The recent announcement of the iMBA program by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with the online provider Coursera, highlights the rising availability of an affordable online professional education.[1] With the cost of a private medical education…
How Distance Programming Can Allow Medical Institutions to Serve New Markets
Katherine Tromp | Director of Distance Education, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine—Co-Written with Mark Terrell | Assistant Dean of Medical Education, Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and Tim Novak | Director of the Masters in Health Services Administration, Lake Erie…