Making Medical Education Relevant

By T.V. RAJAN

Over the past decade or so, many medical schools have revised their basic curricula, largely because many students see the first two years of the traditional medical program as impediments in their progress toward becoming doctors. Most enter medical school with the notion that they will learn how to treat patients, then for two years they face not sick people but darkened lecture halls and endless PowerPoint presentations by a parade of professors. During those years, and for the rest of