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cord-349371-3htcturz	Bleakley, Alan	Embracing the collective through medical education	2020-10-30		.txt	text/plain	7005	317	49	In an era promising patient-centredness and inter-professional practices, we must ask: 'when will medicine, and its informing agent medical education, embrace democratic habits and collectivism?' The symptom of lingering heroic individualism is particularly prominent in North American medical education. In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal-Take Two Aspirin and Call Me by My Pronouns-Stanley Goldfarb (2019) , an experienced physician and retired associate dean of curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine, complains about 'woke' medical schools where "curricula are increasingly focused on social justice rather than treating illness". Prejudice against medical education's potential interest in social justice issues is grounded in a long-standing historical divide between health in the community setting (focused on prevention of illness) and hospital-based medicine (focused on treatment). Medical educators whose pedagogies celebrated individual achievement ignored the work of American scholars who had spent time in Russia studying collectivist and dialectical-materialist learning theory, such as the psychologist Michael Cole (Cole et al.	./cache/cord-349371-3htcturz.txt	./txt/cord-349371-3htcturz.txt