Abstract :
Scholarship of integration in medical education and research makes connections within and between disciplines, locating knowledge in a broader context giving meaning to specific discoveries. It aims to distribute the fruits of academic discovery to benefit specific individual members of society aka patients who in turn help academics to multiply the construction of new knowledge translated into practice. (Reference:
The fruits of academic discovery by individual academics, students, their teacher learners and end beneficiaries of their education (patients), are stored in open access, online learning portfolios with optimal transparency and accountability toward development of further knowledge based, user driven, impactful learning and research in medical education and practice.
This chapter contextualizes and describes a working prototype for scholarly integration in medical education and research framework showcasing student user driven, patient centered assessments of learning outcomes driving health care outcomes. This is a postulated effective tool to tackle the problem statement highlighted in the chapter primarily around two broad categories and it's subcategories:
a) Current disintegration of Medical education and practice
Medical student and faculty engagement in rote memorization through an arcane curriculum that promotes plagiarism and diminishes scholarship
disconnected from
Patients who continue to suffer due to lack of student and faculty engagement with them in a broader empathic meaningful manner.
b) Long overdue National Medical integration of health care delivery through methodologically diverse streams of interventions:
India's traditional and tribal system of Medicine historically neglected due to undue hype created by a dominant Western mode of Medical education that engages our students and teachers as unquestioning slaves.
Although current West has moved on globally, we are unable to get over our colonial past that continues to haunt our education and practice.
The working prototype described in this chapter tackles the above problem statements head on and describes a participatory action research framework and learning ecosystem that thrives in transparency, accountability and real time evidence based audit of education and practice.
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