Contradictions of Medical Education

Janet Grant BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, FBPsS is a chartered educational psychologist who was the first non-clinical lecturer in medical education in the world, appointed at King’s College Hospital Medical School in London in 1972. Her PhD in 1980 was on medical students’ and doctors’ diagnostic thinking processes. Janet is Emerita Professor of Education in Medicine at the UK Open University.For most of her academic life, Janet conducted policy research in medical education for the UK government and professional medical and regulatory bodies. Her interests are in policy research, regulation, educational development, continuing professional development and curriculum. She has worked in many countries and with international organisations around the world, and has written extensively on contextual relevance in these topics.Janet has been a regulator in both postgraduate medical education and legal education.Leonard Grant, MChem(Oxon), MSc, PhD is an early career academic interested in the political economy of work as a determinant of health. Leonard’s PhD thesis used a dialectical materialist methodology to consider the workplace as part of the postgraduate General Practice curriculum. From 2013 to 2024, Leonard was the Academic Course Manager for the FAIMER/Keele MHPE in Assessment and Accreditation where he managed the educational process for hundreds of students, taught Research Methods and wrote on distance and distributed learning. Leonard has been involved in developing and teaching a new Public Health MSc at the University of Winchester, UK. He is currently a Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Liverpool.

• Chapter 1. Practice – theory – practice: Learning from the experience of medical education.- Part I: Culture and Context.- Chapter 2. Socio-cultural contexts and medical education: Tales from four continents.- Chapter 3. Glocalisation of medical education: Impact and challenges.- Chapter 4. Exploring the root cause of stagnation in medical education.- Part II: Globalisation and its Problems.- Chapter 5. The ‘fast and fashionable’ syndrome.- Chapter 6. Standardisation: The root of the flat curve.- Chapter 7. Greater than the sum: International partnerships in medical education.- Part III: Negotiating Identities in Medical Education and Medicine.- Chapter 8. The road not taken: Transitioning to full-time medical education research from clinical practice as a junior doctor.- Chapter 9. Finding the centre of my Venn: Navigating experiences of identity challenge as a medical student.- Chapter 10. Medical education: What should we be teaching future generations?.- Part IV: Managing the System, the Profession, and the Business of Medical Education: The Neoliberal Project.- Chapter 11. The marginalisation of the medical profession and its impact on medical education. Lessons from Sweden.- Chapter 12. Medical leadership and management: Why should we bother?.- Chapter 13. Medical education in Brazil: Context and challenges.- Chapter 14. Walls and bridges: The professional relationship between academics and administrators.- Part V: Medical Education and the Workplace.- Chapter 15. When does a surgical trainee become competent to perform surgery?.- Chapter 16. Postgraduate surgical training and the workplace: A developing mismatch.- Chapter 17. Training during the real work of after-admitting ward rounds.- Part VI: The Power and Politics of Curriculum.- Chapter 18. Basic science in medical education: Switching it up.- Chapter 19. Is the current integrated approach to the medical curriculum obscuring what students need to learn for clinical practice?.- Chapter 20. Managing medical and dental curriculum reform in a sub-Saharan country.- Chapter 21. Bedside teaching: Understanding which tails wag the dog.- Chapter 22. The importance of first impressions: Exploring the hidden curriculum in medical education.- Chapter 23. The politics and contradictions of medical education.