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Predicting the future of medical education, suggests Eva (2008, p. 330) is a ‘fool’s task,’ where ‘the most likely outcome promises to be embarrassment for the prophet.’ We tend to agree with Eva that we may all be better off in medical education for ‘covering up the crystal ball.’ However, in this book we make no claims for prophecy; rather, we are interested in Michel Foucault’s idea of a history of the present. This approach maps out the conditions of possibility for the emergence of particular ideas and practices. As Foucault (2005, p. 9) puts it:
The way forward is paradoxically to look not ahead, but to look around.
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid, The Social Life of Information 2000
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Bleakley, A., Bligh, J., Browne, J. (2011). Medical Education as Patient. In: Medical Education for the Future. Advances in Medical Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9692-0_1
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