Abstract

PURPOSE
This study was designed to analyze the current status of multicampus medical education in Korea, to identify its educational significance, and to develop strategies for overcoming such disadvantages. METHODS: The logistic data were collected from 41 medical schools, and the educational impacts based on the location of campuses and clinical teaching hospitals, types of education, major functions, and collaboration system between campuses were analyzed. RESULTS: 35 from 41 medical schools ran various forms of multicampus education, and only 8 claimed a system that bridged the school campus and teaching hospital (s). However, none were equipped with any form of meaningful liaison accommodating a distant learning system between learning centers. Regardless, the advantages of multicampus school system aimed to provide a wide range of learning experiences, serious disadvantages remained without the system developing an effective method for overcoming difficulties of communication or establishing an achievement to reach a common educational consensus. CONCLUSION: Various advantages of multicampus system in terms of producing pleuripotential physicians have been rationalized, but any measures for their effective collaboration remains limited. This paper stresses the development of a responsible unit for better support between school campus and clinical teaching centers in multicampus curriculum planning. It is also crucial to design an educational communication channel between them.

• Keywords: Multicampus education;Teaching hospital;Educational liaison resources;Distance learning