Advancement of Medical Education: A Changing Global Concept

Competencies in ME: In 1990, George Miller, an American psychologist, presented a model to assess the "clinical competency" of healthcare providers.He concluded that medical student's traditional teaching and assessment focused heavily on testing their knowledge and not assessing their practice in real-life clinical scenarios known as the "Miller's pyramid," as shown in Figure 1. 5 This model helped transition from theoretical knowledge-based Medical education a s a technology i n t h e Modern eraMedical education (ME) in modern medical sciences continues to evolve, adapting to contemporary healthcare needs and global medical advancements while preserving its rich ancient centuriesold traditional roots, evolving from the era of Hippocrates of Kos (460-377 BCE) known as the father of modern medicine, 1 Acharya Charak (300 BCE) and Sushruta of India. 2 We all know that education itself, as a technology, is rapidly growing to its potential, and such technologies also impact the ME field.With a need to constantly incorporate updated newer technologies, ME enables us to prepare future physicians and surgeons.Accordingly, there are changing trends and concepts in teaching, clinical practice, and the upgradation of modern clinical medicine in diagnosis and treatment, as well as advancements in health sciences at large.