Medical Schools and Curriculum Enrichment in Entrepreneurship

To retrain medical students to become medical entrepreneurs, there is an urgent need for curriculum review and enrichment in medical schools across the globe. An enriched medical curriculum should not compromise the primary goal of medical education but should present a balance of medical education that meets social and economic goals in the healthcare industry. To bridge the gaps identified above, the chapter discusses the prospects and challenges of curriculum enrichment in medical schools through the incorporation of entrepreneurship modules. The chapter underscores that the traditional curriculum used for medical education is effective and has produced generations of scientifically grounded and clinically skilled physicians, but curriculum enrichment is imperative because the existing curriculum cannot adequately address the healthcare needs and problems of the twenty-first century. The chapter provides valuable insights into the process of curriculum enrichment, engagement of stakeholders and medical professional bodies, types of modules to be introduced, and teaching styles. Furthermore, it explicates that curriculum enrichment would provide medical graduates with different choices and pathways. The chapter concludes that medical entrepreneurship presents double advantages to the medical profession: (a) medipreneurs would be acceptable as specialists in the medical profession and (b) medipreneurs as trained medical doctors would better respond to the healthcare needs and problems of twenty-first-century communities.