Yes, but does medical education produce better doctors?

ABSTRACT

Medical education research and development’s reason for existence is their contribution to producing better doctors. Arguably this is as. notion that nobody would disagree with. But, answering this question is not as straightforward as it may look. In this paper we describe six complexities that impact on such research and unfortunately contribute to the difficulties surrounding medical education knowledge translation to practice.

KEYWORDS:

• Medical education
• research
• knowledge translation
• complexity
• competency based medical education

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.