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Lecture Halls without Lectures — A Proposal for Medical Education

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  • Charles G. Prober, M.D.,
  • and Chip Heath, Ph.D.

Medical education in this era of a vast medical canon can be improved without increasing the time it takes to earn a medical degree, if we make lessons “stickier” and embrace a learning strategy that is self-paced and mastery-based and that boosts engagement.

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Author Affiliations

From the Stanford School of Medicine (C.G.P.) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business (C.H.), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

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