Corporatization of Medical Education

In this episode of The APS Publications Podcast, we bring you Dr. Stephen DiCarlo (Michigan State University) discussing his Personal View co-authored with Dr. Heidi L. Lujan. According to the authors, physiology educators should be preparing future physicians to deliver the care we want to receive as patients. This requires training in communication, collaboration, inquiry, discovery, and innovation while developing the habits of the mind and heart that advance the practice of medicine and the health of the public. However, the authors argue that the current “corporatization” of medical education is failing to accomplish this outcome when medical schools adopt corporate models, cut costs, and seek profit-making opportunities without improving what goes on in the classroom. The authors would like to see physiology educators reconnect to the greater purpose and value of learning. Find out more by listening now.

 

Heidi L. Lujan, and Stephen E. DiCarlo We used to get money to teach students, now we teach students to get money: medical education has become a market with credentials not knowledge the commodity! Advances in Physiology Education, published June 23, 2023. DOI: 10.1152/advan.00065.2023