Frontiers in Medical Science Education

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue of Healthcare will feature invited papers, by experts, on important topics regarding the medical science education of future medical doctors, as well as the general public.  Advances in K-12 health science education, college pre-medical science education, and medical school education will be featured. The current United States medical education framework was proposed, in 1910, by Mr. Abraham Flexner, a well-connected high school teacher who emerged as an organizational genius early in the twentieth century.  Flexner adapted a European university-based medical school model to replace the proprietary medical school education model that had been prevalent in the United States at that time. Flexner’s disruptive innovation was the addition of US-specific standardized admissions criteria for medical school applicants. Over time, Flexner’s disruptive innovation seriously distorted the pre-medical education process and rendered the required college science coursework for medical school applicants, still in place today a century later (i.e., biology, inorganic and organic chemistry, and physics) with little value for future practicing physicians. This special issue will survey health science education throughout US society in relation to the education of medical students as well the general population.  Current curriculum disparities among medical, nursing, and pharmacy students will be documented, and discussed in terms of down-the-road team delivery of healthcare services. Deficiencies of visual learning in nursing and pharmacy curriculum are discussed. “ Flexner 2.0”, a futuristic medical school model curriculum will be discussed in light of recent demonstrations that even K-12 students are capable of mastering  subject matter previously reserved for medical schools in the United States. This special issue of Healthcare will feature 6 original papers by leaders in medical education whose work is at the leading edge of this critically important healthcare education arena.

Prof. Dr. Ronald S. Weinstein
Prof. Dr. Elizabeth A. Krupinski
Guest Editors

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• Medical science
• medical education
• internet-based resources
• informatics
• distance education
• interprofessional education
• curricular disparities
• computer-based learning
• medical errors
• human performance