With economic winter facing many healthcare and health education
budgets, the high costs of medical education are bringing it under close
scrutiny. However, the costs of not providing high quality medical
education - not least human costs in morbidity and mortality from
medical error - are also high, presenting medical educators, funding
managers, policy makers and economists with an unenviable dilemma. To
add to their difficulties, remarkably little has been written on cost
effectiveness in medical education, including how to calculate costs,
how to get maximal value for money and even what constitutes value for
money. In this book, the first of its kind, world leading experts
comprehensively outline what is known about cost effectiveness in each
of their fields. Undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional
education are all explored, as are e-learning, simulation, cost benefit
analysis and numerous other areas. Lecturers and researchers in medical
education, clinical tutors and educational supervisors and appraisers,
managers responsible for funding medical education and health economists
and health policy makers and shapers will find this an invaluable
resource. 'An excellent analysis and explanation of an under-explored
subject' - from the Foreword by Sir Liam Donaldson
