The Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation recently released the chairman's summary of a pending report that urges the nation’s medical schools to reform their educational model because it too often fails to give new physicians the right mix of competencies and experiences to practice medicine effectively.

According to the report, Revisiting the Medical School Educational Mission at a Time of Great Expansion, "medical education has not kept pace with the growing public expectations of physicians or with the novel demands of an increasingly complex healthcare system.”

PCOM Dean Kenneth Veit, DO, MBA; ATSU-SOMA Dean Douglas Wood, DO, PhD; Marc Hahn, DO; and AACOM President Stephen C. Shannon, DO, MPH, were among the 36-member panel of experts who developed the report. The group was convened by the Macy Foundation in 2008 to assess ways in which medical school enrollment expansion could be harnessed to advance the effectiveness of medical education. For more information, or to download the summary, visit the Macy Foundation at http://www.josiahmacyfoundation.org/index.php?section=home.