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In recent decades, researchers have studied the cultures of medicine and the ways in which context and identity shape both individual experiences and structural barriers in medical education. The essays in this collection offer new insights into the deep histories of these processes, across time and around the globe.
Transforming Medical Education compiles twenty-one historical case studies that foreground processes of learning, teaching, and defining medical communities in educational contexts. The chapters are organized around the themes of knowledge transmission, social justice, identity, pedagogy, and the surprising affinities between medical and historical practice. By juxtaposing original research on diverse geographies and eras – from medieval Japan to twentieth-century Canada, and from colonial Cameroon to early Republican China – the volume disrupts traditional historiographies of medical education by making room for schools of medicine for revolutionaries, digital cadavers, emotional medical students, and the world’s first mandatory Indigenous community placement in an accredited medical curriculum. This unique collection of international scholarship honours historian, physician, and professor Jacalyn Duffin for her outstanding contributions to the history of medicine and medical education.
An invaluable scholarly resource and teaching tool, Transforming Medical Education offers a provocative study of what it means to teach, learn, and belong in medicine.
"This is probably the most important synthesis of the history of medical education since the collective work edited by Charles D.O’Malley in 1970 ... It should be a primary reference for anyone researching or teaching the history of medical education … and is also a strong reference for making the case in favour of the teaching of history in medical faculties." *Medical History *
“Transforming Medical Education is probably the most important synthesis of the history of medical education since the collective work edited by Charles D. O’Malley in 1970…[T]his book should be a primary reference for anyone researching or teaching the history of medical education." Medical History
"Transforming Medical Education will be an important work for medical educators across all subject fields. Particularly useful for teaching the history of medicine, it provides an invaluable resource to those interested in the history of professional education, especially the education of medical doctors." Historica" Studies in Education