미래 의학교육을 위한 다섯 가지 제언

Abstract

This study is to investigate the historical characteristics of medical education and healthcare environment in Korea and to suggestthe desirable direction for future medical education. We draw a consensus through the literature analysis and several debates fromthe eight experts of medical education. There are several historical characteristics of medical education: medical education asvocational education and training, as a higher education, rapid growth of new medical schools, change to the medical educationsystem, curriculum development, reinforcement of medical humanities, improvement of teaching and evaluation methods, validationof the national health personnel licensing examination, accreditation system for quality assurance, and establishment of specializedmedical education division. The changes of health care environment in medical education are development of medical technologies,changes in the structures of the population and diseases, growth of information and communication technology, consumer-centeredsociety, and increased intervention by the third party stakeholder. We propose five suggestions to be made to improve future medicaleducation. They are plan for outcome and competency-based medical education, connection between the undergraduate and graduatemedical education, reinforcement of continuous quality improvement of medical education, reorganization of the medical educationsystem and construction of leadership of ”academic medicine.“