The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine developed a 3-year curriculum in primary care.

Many graduates from U.S. medical schools have poor clinical exam skills and rely increasingly on lab reports, imaging, and other diagnostic tests.

Medical school admission committees can act within current legal guidelines to identify and recruit students from groups that are underrepresented in medicine.

Many graduates from U.S. medical schools have poor clinical exam skills and rely increasingly on lab reports, imaging, and other diagnostic tests.

Much premed education encourages acquiring competence in basic science and demonstrating (rather than developing) the characteristics of a good physician.

Since the 1950s courts have grappled with resident physicians’ liability for medical error. First, they asked, “Are medical residents true physicians?” Then, “Are they general practitioners or specialists?”

There are four key elements of health system reform that medical educators must endeavor to implement.

Residents and the physicians they report to can manage work-hour restrictions honestly and effectively.

No doubt extra-medical education aids in personal satisfaction and career development, but do we really need so many doctors who are trained in business, policy, administration, history, or journalism?

One of medical education’s key responsibilities is to produce leaders to serve the profession and health care system.