Progress in medical education.

Abstract

Progress in implementing the World Federation for Medical Education Edinburgh Recommendations in all three phases of education--undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing--is dependent upon recognition of the need to manage dissatisfaction with the present, to have appropriate visions for the future, to have a management strategy for implementing change and to be cost-effective. The extent to which progress can be anticipated is reflected in the formula: Change = (Dissatisfaction x Vision x Process) > Cost We have to aim for a curriculum that will be more convenient, relevant, individualized to the need of each student or trainee, diagnostic--emphasizing self-assessment, interesting--taking account of motivation of students and doctors, systematic or planned and allowing for speculation and a consideration of the grey areas or uncertainties of medicine as well as the certainties.