What constitutes a medical miseducation? Ten mishaps, readily remedied

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ID21448629
AuthorsAlan Bleakley (0000-0001-5206-7010, University of Plymouth, corresponding author)
Year2025
Volume47
Issue9
Pages1509-1516
Publication date2025-09-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Teacher (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0142-159X • E-ISSN: 1466-187X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0142159x.2024.2442640
PMID39773198
OpenAlexW4406198852
LanguageEN
References cited42

In adopting reductive instrumentalism as a dominant discourse medical education can be seen to have cultivated a values monoculture resistant to innovation. This culture characteristically retreats to the safety of conservatism rather than diversifying and innovating to embrace values beyond the functional - such as the ethical, aesthetic, and political. Here - where teaching displaces facilitation of learning - training is privileged over education, competence over capability, linearity over complexity, and information over knowledge. Drawing on the medical education research literature, ten symptoms of an undergraduate medicine 'compulsory miseducation' are described, paralleled by ways in which such a miseducation may be countered

Aesthetics · Competence (human resources) · Conservatism · Epistemology · Facilitation · Instrumentalism · Medical education · Opposition (politics) · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills · Empathy and Medical Education · Innovations in Medical Education · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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