At NYU, 10 percent of the nearly 200 students who entered the School of Medicine last fall were chosen for the new program. Students can change to the four-year program if the faster one is too difficult or too much pressure.
Arthur Caplan is a bioethicist who heads the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU’s Langone Medical Center. He says the current system of American medical education dates back to the early 20th century. An American doctor named Simon Flexner studied the German model of medical education. The Germans divided it into two years of science and two years of supervised clinical work with patients.
Germany’s model was considered the best in the world. American medical schools copied it. But Arthur Caplan says today, medical students should be spending less time in the classroom and more time gaining experience in modern medicine.
“Let’s say, without being silly about it, that there’s a lot more technology to learn and manage in the year 2013 than there was in the year 1905. So the medical model of education that we have is out of date, probably by about 100 years. Too much basic science, not enough clinical doing and apprenticeship, hands-on training.”
After medical school, most new doctors spend at least three years working in residencies in hospitals. Training for some specialties can take much longer.
“Graduate training, specialty training after medical school, is getting longer and longer and longer. So we’re likely to see that continue. It’s not that the overall amount of time in training is likely to diminish. It’s that we’ll give up some time in medical school for more time training in your specialty after medical school.”
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