The Contradictions of Medical Education

Janet Grant BA(Hons), MSc, PhD, FBPsS is a chartered educational psychologist who was the first non-clinical lecturer in medical education in the world, appointed at King’s College Hospital Medical School in London in 1972. Her PhD in 1980 was on medical students’ and doctors’ diagnostic thinking processes. Janet is Emerita Professor of Education in Medicine at the UK Open University. For most of her academic life, Janet conducted policy research in medical education for the UK government and professional medical and regulatory bodies. Her interests are in policy research, regulation, educational development, continuing professional development and curriculum. She has worked in many countries and with international organisations around the world, and has written extensively on contextual relevance in these topics. Janet has been a regulator in both postgraduate medical education and legal education. Leonard Grant, MChem(Oxon), MSc, PhD is an early career academic interested in the political economy of work as a determinant of health. Leonard’s PhD thesis used a dialectical materialist methodology to consider the workplace as part of the postgraduate General Practice curriculum. From 2013 to 2024, Leonard was the Academic Course Manager for the FAIMER/Keele MHPE in Assessment and Accreditation where he managed the educational process for hundreds of students, taught Research Methods and wrote on distance and distributed learning. Leonard has been involved in developing and teaching a new Public Health MSc at the University of Winchester, UK. He is currently a Lecturer in Medical Education at the University of Liverpool.