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The world turned upside down: the case for thinking differently about undergraduate education

The world turned upside down: the case for thinking differently about undergraduate education
The world turned upside down: the case for thinking differently about undergraduate education
In 1985 Julian Tudor Hart observed: ‘… our medical schools teach and our students learn better than ever before’,1yet he also noted that there was a ‘… crisis of structure’.

In response to that crisis he went on to make a case for ‘turning the world upside down’, arguing for a reversal in undergraduate medical education to see the preponderance of teaching time spent in the community rather than in hospital. The change he advocated did not occur; however, the discipline of academic general practice was recognised as playing a key role in the medical school curriculum and the education of medical students.
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Fitzgerald-Barron, Alex
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Lyon-Maris, Johnny
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Hill, Faith
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Fitzgerald-Barron, Alex, Lyon-Maris, Johnny, Hill, Faith and Scallan, Samantha (2018) The world turned upside down: the case for thinking differently about undergraduate education. British Journal of General Practice, 68 (669), 185. (doi:10.3399/bjgp18X695525).

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In 1985 Julian Tudor Hart observed: ‘… our medical schools teach and our students learn better than ever before’,1yet he also noted that there was a ‘… crisis of structure’.

In response to that crisis he went on to make a case for ‘turning the world upside down’, arguing for a reversal in undergraduate medical education to see the preponderance of teaching time spent in the community rather than in hospital. The change he advocated did not occur; however, the discipline of academic general practice was recognised as playing a key role in the medical school curriculum and the education of medical students.

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e-pub ahead of print date: 28 March 2018
Published date: 1 April 2018

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Local EPrints ID: 420586
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/420586
ISSN: 0960-1643
PURE UUID: 06d11ef7-d951-425c-96c5-d89c49049544

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Date deposited: 10 May 2018 16:30
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 19:28

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Author: Alex Fitzgerald-Barron
Author: Johnny Lyon-Maris
Author: Faith Hill
Author: Samantha Scallan

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