Editorial: The changing face of adult surgical education: a positive ‘disruption’ for more than just millennials (original) (raw)

Current Opinion in Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery, 2019

Abstract

If you were to sit in a medical school classroom in 1985 and imagine what the future of medical education would hold, it seems unlikely you would have imagined a textbook-free environment and consultations with Dr. Google. Surgical education and adult learning have been disruptively innovated in the last few decades. It is easy to blame the Millennial generation (born 1981–1994) and now, Generation Z (born 1995–2010), or the technology they grew up with for the societywide decrease in attention span. It may be that all generations can benefit from this new focus on the learner. The purpose of this commentary is to examine recent educational transformations and to apply these concepts of adult learning to medical students, residents, trainees, and practicing surgeons.

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