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Evaluate whether medical education can be optimized by managing interactions and skill sequencing across educational phases rather than reforming isolated courses.

July 29, 2004Academic Medicine

Medical Education as a Process Management Problem

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EAElizabeth ArmstrongLouisiana State University in Shreveport MMMarie Mackey SSSteven J. SpearBoston University

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Systems analysis reveals fragmented curricular design impairs clinical training efficiency in medical education, highlighting the need for process management across instructional phases.

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Evaluate whether medical education can be optimized by managing interactions and skill sequencing across educational phases rather than reforming isolated courses.
Conducted an exploratory systems-level case study analyzing a medical student's progression through third- and fourth-year clinical clerkships.
Benchmarked medical training workflows against operational design principles used in high-performing, knowledge-intensive industries.
Current medical education reforms isolate individual courses and clerkships without standardizing skill sequencing, cross-disciplinary communication, or phase-to-phase mastery gates.
Adapting systems design and process management models from advanced industries offers a pathway to increase skill mastery while reducing training duration and educational costs.

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Armstrong et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a707829a528af2d65c38d59 https://doi.org/10.1097/00001888-200408000-00002

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Systems analysis reveals fragmented curricular design impairs clinical training efficiency in medical education, highlighting the need for process management across instructional phases.

Medical Education as a Process Management Problem

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Medical Education as a Process Management Problem

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