Medical students design their ideal medical school

New Zealand medical students were asked to design the ideal medical school. The areas they marked for change included candidate selection, curriculum, teaching standards and methods of assessment. They suggested ways of making medical training a more personal, broader and better integrated experience. The rigid division between pre-clinical and clinical studies was criticised as were time-wasting lectures and rapid-fire lecturers. The students' recommendations were similar to many which have appeared in the literature of medical education.