Dr. Raj Mangrulkar and medical student Jesse Burk-Rafel at the University of Michigan Medical School. Good communication skills, teamwork and adaptability will help doctors thrive through swift changes in medical science, Mangrulkar says. Leisa Thompson\/Courtesy of University of Michigan Medical School hide caption <\/p>\n
Dr. Raj Mangrulkar and medical student Jesse Burk-Rafel at the University of Michigan Medical School. Good communication skills, teamwork and adaptability will help doctors thrive through swift changes in medical science, Mangrulkar says. <\/p>\n
Medicine has changed a lot in the past 100 years. But medical training hasn't until now. Spurred by the need to train a different type of doctor, some top medical schools around the U.S. are tearing up the textbooks and starting from scratch. <\/p>\n
\"We haven't taught people how to be specific about working in teams, how to communicate with peers and colleagues and how to communicate to the general public about what's going on in health care and medicine.\" <\/p>\n
- Dr. Erin McKean, surgeon and teacher, University of Michigan Medical School <\/p>\n
Most medical schools still operate under a model pioneered in the early 1900s by an educator named Abraham Flexner. <\/p>\n
\"Flexner did a lot of great things,\" says Dr. Raj Mangrulkar, associate dean for medical student education at the University of Michigan Medical School. \"But we've learned a lot and now we're absolutely ready for a new model.\" <\/p>\n
Michigan is one of many med schools in the midst of a major overhaul of their curricula. <\/p>\n
For example, in a windowless classroom, a small group of second-year students is hard at work. The students are not studying anatomy or biochemistry or any of the traditional sciences. They're polishing their communication skills. <\/p>\n
In the first exercise, students paired off and negotiated the price of a used BMW. Now they're trying to settle on who should get credit for an imaginary medical journal article. <\/p>\n
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