KevinMD May 29, 2024
In 1950, newly trained physicians may have gone the entire lengths of their careers without experiencing a doubling in medical knowledge. In 2011, Densen predicted that medical knowledge would have a doubling time of approximately 73 days – or 0.2 years – by 2020. “What was learned in the first three years of medical school,” according to Densen, “will be just 6 percent of what is known at the end of the decade from 2010 to 2020.” Today, physicians of all ages – from students to experienced attendings – continue to struggle and keep up with the exponential growth, or “flood,” of new medical knowledge. Thus, critical transformations in the culture, structure, and educational approaches of medicine are urgently required...
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