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Innovative Medical Schools Achieve Curriculum Reform
Expansion of policy analysis of medical education reform
In 1993, Harvard University School of Public Health produced a report on innovations in medical education at American and Canadian medical schools.
The project was part of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) national program Preparing Physicians for the Future: A Program in Medical Education.
Key Findings: The investigators examined eight American and two Canadian medical schools that had undertaken serious efforts to design and implement significant reform before 1990, and reported the following findings to RWJF:
- Smaller schools were more likely to reform their medical training programs than were larger schools.
- Bigger schools are less affected by turbulence in their external environments than smaller schools.
- Smaller schools may also be less able to implement and institutionalize reforms because of resistance from faculty and administration.
- Public schools can innovate as boldly as private schools.
- Younger schools were the broader-scope innovators.
Preparing Physicians for the Future Project Results
Individual project results from the RWJF national program, Preparing Physicians for the Future: A Program in Medical Education
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