The rotational approach to medical education: time to confront our assumptions?

Abstract:

CONTEXT:Trainees in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education engage in multiple transitions as part of the educational process, including many transitions that occur on both periodic and daily bases within medical education programmes. The clinical rotation, based on either a medical discipline or clinical care setting and occurring over a predetermined, short period of time, is a deeply entrenched educational approach with its roots in Abraham Flexner's seminal report. Many assumptions about the presumed benefits of clinical rotations have become pervasive despite a lack of empirical evidence on their optimal timing and structure, and on how transitions between clinical rotations should occur. METHODS:In this paper, we examine the issue of rotational transitions from the three perspectives of sociology, learning theory, and the improvement of quality and safety. RESULTS:Discussion from the sociological perspective addresses the need for much greater attention to interprofessional relationships and professional development, whereas that from the learning theory perspective examines the gap between what is known from pedagogical and cognitive science and what is currently practised (learning theory). Discussion from the perspective of improving quality and safety refers to the critical need to embed trainees in functional clinical microsystems as meaningful participants. CONCLUSIONS:Research is urgently needed on the effects of transitions on trainees, faculty staff, non-doctor health care providers and patients in order to optimise future competency-based training models and confirm or refute current assumptions.

journal_name

Med Educ

journal_title

Medical education

authors

Holmboe E,Ginsburg S,Bernabeo E

doi

10.1111/j.1365-2923.2010.03847.x

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-01-01 00:00:00

pages

69-80

issue

1

eissn

0308-0110

issn

1365-2923

journal_volume

45

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