Current Challenges in Globalization of Medical Education; Looking through the Lens of Health Reforms

Abstract

Globalization of medical education is a need of the hour. Medical profession has faced many challenges and different institutions developed various strategies to cope with these challenges. In the past, the training model in medical education used was “Apprenticeship Model”. Then medical education evolved further to implement process and product based models. Now all over the world, outcome based or competency based model is the preferred way of trainings in medical profession. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Model in the US and CanMEDS Model of Canada are well known models internationally for imparting medical education.