And, curriculum and faculty foci underwent a transformation from generalist topics taught by faculty grounded in the world of business to a specialized (read: analytic) curriculum taught by a research faculty increasingly disconnected from the practice of management.
Controversial in an era typified by a generalist approach to teaching the sciences, Rogers' model is now widely emulated by institutions throughout the world.
The UC model described here was influenced by the NOSM medical education model, but is distinct as it focuses on preclinical medical students, uses local generalists to teach courses, and, unlike the satellite models, employs facilities not specifically created for medical education.
(Associate dean of postgraduate studies) Our findings offer a deeper understanding of current shortcomings in teaching generalist-specialist collaboration.
In this paper, the authors describe the work of the Genetics in Primary Care Faculty Development Working Group on Cultural Competency, a federally-funded initiative to prepare generalist faculty to teach genetics as part of ambulatory education.
And most of us are specialists in sub-fields, inexperienced at teaching it to generalists and ignorant of how best to teach skills such as composition or public speaking.
A focus on LTC does not mean that academic geriatrics should abandon its commitment to teach generalists the principles of geriatrics in a hospital setting as well as during nursing home, assisted living and home visit rotations.
Anyone teaching younger students has to be a generalist.
Reforms such as increasing generalist training, increasing ambulatory care exposure, providing social science courses, teaching lifelong and self-learning skills, rewarding teaching, clarifying the school mission, and centralizing curriculum control have appeared almost continuously since 1910.
