The World's Medical Schools: Past, Present and Future
Markley H. Boyer
The academic structure and curriculum of today's medical school reflects the maturation a centuries-old educational process. All cultures require teaching system that produces ‘compassionate healers,’ originally, care was supported relatively informally by an apprenticeship system. With Renaissance, better understanding about physiology, pathology, therapy expanded role for university created more organized form education. Flexner's 1910 review U.S. teaching, institution standards, expansion scientific knowledge solidified current ‘Western’ model schools. A changing society, new health-care systems, discoveries are now creating demand revised, globally oriented, education
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