Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

PART ONE.

Today's Practice, Yesterday's Legacy, Tomorrow's Challenges.

1. Educating Physicians: Context and Challenges.

2. Being a Doctor: Foundations of Professional Education.

PART TWO.

Learning the Physician's Work.

3. The Student's Experience: Undergraduate Medical Education.

4. The Resident's Experience: Graduate Medical Education.

PART THREE.

External Pressures and Internal Forces for Change.

5. Regulating and Financing Medical Education.

6. Leadership for Organizational Change.

PART FOUR.

Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges: A Vision of the Possible.

7. Realizing the Vision: Transforming Medical Education.

8. Supporting Excellence Through Effective Policy.

References.

Index.