Second Flexner Century: The Democratization of Medical Knowledge: Repurposing a General Pathology Course Into Multigrade-Level "Gateway" Courses.

Autor:	Weinstein RS; Department of Pathology, College of Medicine-Tucson, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Arizona Telemedicine Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), The University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA., Waer AL; Arizona Telemedicine Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Department of Surgery, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA., Weinstein JB; Bard Early Colleges, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, Hamlet, New York, NY, USA., Briehl MM; Department of Pathology, College of Medicine-Tucson, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA., Holcomb MJ; Arizona Telemedicine Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), The University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA., Erps KA; Arizona Telemedicine Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), The University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA., Holtrust AL; Arizona Telemedicine Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), The University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA., Tomkins JM; Department of Pathology, College of Medicine-Tucson, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA., Barker GP; Institute for Advanced Telemedicine and Telehealth (T-Health Institute), The University of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ, USA.; Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA., Krupinski EA; Arizona Telemedicine Program, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.; Department of Radiology & Imaging Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Academic pathology [Acad Pathol] 2017 Jul 18; Vol. 4, pp. 2374289517718872. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Jul 18 (Print Publication: 2017).
DOI:	10.1177/2374289517718872
Abstrakt:	Starting in 1910, the "Flexner Revolution" in medical education catalyzed the transformation of the US medical education enterprise from a proprietary medical school dominated system into a university-based medical school system. In the 21st century, what we refer to as the "Second Flexner Century" shifts focus from the education of medical students to the education of the general population in the "4 health literacies." Compared with the remarkable success of the first Flexner Revolution, retrofitting medical science education into the US general population today, starting with K-12 students, is a more daunting task. The stakes are high. The emergence of the patient-centered medical home as a health-care delivery model and the revelation that medical errors are the third leading cause of adult deaths in the United States are drivers of population education reform. In this century, patients will be expected to assume far greater responsibility for their own health care as full members of health-care teams. For us, this process began in the run-up to the "Second Flexner Century" with the creation and testing of a general pathology course, repurposed as a series of "gateway" courses on mechanisms of diseases, suitable for introduction at multiple insertion points in the US education continuum. In this article, we describe nomenclature for these gateway courses and a "top-down" strategy for creating pathology coursework for nonmedical students. Finally, we list opportunities for academic pathology departments to engage in a national "Democratization of Medical Knowledge" initiative. Competing Interests: Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
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