In China, like in Western countries, a shift towards competency-based medical education3 (CBME) is underway. What is CBME about? Essentially, it evaluates less what’s in physicians’ heads and emphasizes more what they are able to do with their knowledge. CBME...
Many people learn better when they are in groups. The reason may be experience of peer-support or feeling social pressure to perform well. A proponent of social constructivism will even say that learning always requires a social context because knowledge generation...
Progress of medicine and, together with it, the wellbeing of patients depend on creative minds. Patel and Chaikof, both affiliated with Harvard Medical School, alert us to the fact that even modern educational tools—problem-based learning, the ‘flipped classroom’, and so on—mostly...
For airplane pilots, simulator training is a longstanding way of training. Taking over the responsibility for hundreds of people ten kilometers up in the air requires previous practice in a safe environment. In health professional education, simulated or standardized patients—humans...
