Integration of multimodality and critical clinical thinking approaches in medical education: A futuristic perspective

Despite many recent technological advances, the convenience of lecture-based teaching has remained the norm in higher education settings, including medical education. Following this one-size-fits-all approach does not prepare medical students for real life clinical situations as they enter the healthcare arena. The explosion of medical information has made "coverage" of all foundational knowledge an impossibility. Thus, medical schools must prepare future professionals to become self-correcting learners by engaging them in a learning environment that encourages life-long learning, reasoning, divergent thinking, problem solving, and peer and continuous self-review. It is these futuristic skillsets that will enhance their decision-making when dealing with medical problems associated with the management of patients. In this chapter, the authors will discuss the utilization of the CGScholar platform, a self-and peer-review multimodal communication software program which facilitates most of these futuristic requisite learning strategies to improve medical education.