Modern Medical Education: Preparing for the Future

Editors

John Sandars, Shabih Zaidi, Ali N. Zaidi (Editors)

ISBN: 9783032279576

Published: July 28, 2026

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Springer

Description

Modern Medical Education: Preparing for the Future gives a comprehensive, forward-looking overview of where professional medical education is headed, as healthcare systems and technology push training toward new models faster than curricula typically adapt. Across 41 chapters, an international group of contributors sets out a possible future for one aspect of medical training — from undergraduate and postgraduate curricula to clinical skills, assessment, and the wellbeing of learners — along with the enabling factors, the barriers in the way, and practical suggestions for working past them. The stated aim, in the editors’ own words, is to help “prepare future doctors for modern medicine” while giving educators, institutional leaders, and policy-makers tools to begin changing their own practice.

Key Features

41 chapters organised around the full arc of medical training, built for direct use by three groups: (1) curriculum committees redesigning undergraduate and postgraduate programmes toward flexible, competency-based, lifelong-learning models; (2) faculty-development leads building continuing professional development pathways for educators and structuring simulation- and workshop-based teaching; and (3) institutional leadership and policy-makers planning for medical education in resource-constrained settings and across interprofessional teams.

Coverage

Undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum design; interprofessional education; clinical skills education and assessment; non-technical skills, professionalism and e-professionalism; reflective practice and mindfulness in training; simulation-based education; personalised and lifelong learning; behavioural economics applied to medical education; and medical education in resource-constrained settings, among further chapters covering the learning environment, educator competency development, and the future purpose of medical training.

About the Editors

John Sandars is based in Medical Education at Edge Hill University, UK. He previously worked at the Leeds Institute of Medical Education (University of Leeds) and was Professor of Medical Education at the University of Sheffield before joining Edge Hill in 2016. He is an associate editor for Medical Teacher and has edited two previous books.

Shabih Zaidi is affiliated with the NHS and al-Sadiq International Virtual University, London. An ENT surgeon, medical educator, and ethicist with nearly five decades of experience, he has held roles including Professor, Chair, Dean, and Vice-Chancellor, and currently serves as Chancellor of al-Sadiq International Virtual University. He has published over 200 papers, articles, and editorials and is the author of 14 books, including an encyclopaedia of medical ethics, with fellowships including FRCS, FACS, FICS, and FCPS.

Ali N. Zaidi specialises in Adult Congenital Heart Disease at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, where he directs the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center and the Pediatrics to Adult Transition of Care Program, and serves as director of academic affairs in the Division of Pediatric Cardiology. He is board certified across several cardiology and paediatric areas and is current president of the Alliance for Adult Research in Congenital Cardiology.

Table of Contents

Selected contents (41 chapters in full):
1. Undergraduate Medical Education
2. Postgraduate Curriculum of the Future: Toward a Flexible, Competency-Based, and Lifelong Learning-Oriented Model
3. Developing and Maintaining the Competencies of Educators Through Continuing Professional Development
4. Interprofessional Education of the Future
5. Learning Environment of the Future
6. Reimagining Clinical Skills Education: Strategies for the Future Health Professionals
7. Assessment in the Future Practice of Medical Education
8. Non-Technical Skills in Health Professions Education: Foundations, Pedagogy, and Evaluation
9. Professionalism and e-Professionalism
10. Reflective Practice
11. Mindfulness, Faith, Spirituality, and Mental Health in Medical Education
12. The Use of Workshops in Modern Clinical Education
13. Simulation Is the Future: Shaping Health Professions Education
14. Medical Students at the Crossroads of Adolescence and Adulthood: Rethinking Educational Strategies
15. Personalized and Lifelong Learning
16. Application of Behavioral Economics in Medical Education
17. Understanding the Future's Purpose and Possibilities
18. Challenges in Medical Education and Future Directions: A Forward-Looking Approach
19. Future of Medical Education in Resource-Constrained Settings
… and a further 22 chapters.

Why buy this book?

Medical schools and teaching hospitals worldwide are under pressure to modernise training faster than curricula traditionally change, driven by healthcare workforce shortages, competency-based accreditation standards, and the rapid arrival of AI and simulation tools in the classroom. This volume gives medical education libraries and faculty development offices a single reference that maps the full training pipeline — from undergraduate curriculum to continuing professional development — with practical, implementation-focused chapters rather than purely theoretical ones. For academic health science libraries, it is a direct addition to core holdings in medical education and faculty development.

Keywords

medical education, medical curriculum, competency-based education, clinical skills training, simulation-based learning, interprofessional education, medical teaching and learning, continuing professional development, healthcare workforce training, medical school curriculum reform

Target Audience

Medical educators, healthcare educators, medical school deans and curriculum leaders, medical students, academic and medical school libraries

Genre

Medical Education, Clinical Practice, Healthcare Education

Q&A

What does Modern Medical Education: Preparing for the Future cover?
It covers the full span of medical training — undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum design, clinical skills, assessment, simulation, interprofessional education, and faculty development — across 41 chapters edited by John Sandars, Shabih Zaidi, and Ali N. Zaidi.

How is competency-based medical education addressed in this book?
Chapter 2 sets out a postgraduate curriculum model built around flexible, competency-based, lifelong-learning principles, one of the volume's core organising themes for future training.

What role does simulation play in future medical education, according to this book?
Chapter 13, “Simulation Is the Future: Shaping Health Professions Education,” argues that simulation-based training is central to preparing clinicians for modern practice, complemented by Chapter 12 on workshop-based clinical education.

Does this book address medical education in resource-constrained settings?
Yes — Chapter 19 is dedicated to the future of medical education in resource-constrained settings, reflecting the volume's global, not only high-income-country, perspective on training reform.

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