Medical education ± beyond tomorrow ?
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Against a background of the theoretical basis for the contextual approach to medical education, this paper examines and supports the changes that are occurring in undergraduate medical education throughout the world, before putting up for discussion the suggestion that the changes have not gone far enough. Consideration is given to a model of apprenticeship learning within undergraduate medical education, to the bene®ts it may offer, and to some of the challenges inherent in its implementation.
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