Sect. I: Curriculum development -- New horizons in medical education -- Curriculum planning and development -- The undergraduate curriculum -- Postgraduate medical education: a 'pipeline' to competence -- Continuing professional development -- The hidden curriculum -- Sect. 2: Learning situations -- Lectures -- Learning in small groups -- Learning with patients: inpatient and outpatient -- Learning in the community -- Learning in rural and remote locations -- Learning in longitudinal integrated clerkships -- Learning in a simulated environment -- Distance education -- Sect. 3: Educational strategies and technologies -- Outcome-based education -- Integrated learning -- Interprofessional education -- Problem-based learning -- Team-based learning -- Using digital technologies -- Instructional design -- Sect. 4: Curriculum themes -- Basic sciences and curriculum outcomes -- Social and behavioural sciences in medical school curricula -- Clinical communication -- Ethics and attitudes -- Professionalism -- Evidence-based medicine -- Patient safety and quality of care -- Medical humanities -- Integrative medicine in the training of physicians -- Global awareness -- Medical education in an era of ubiquitous information -- Sect. 5: Assessment -- Concepts in assessment including standard setting -- Written assessments -- Performance and workplace assessment -- Portfolios, projects and theses -- Feedback, reflection and coaching: a new model -- The assessment of attitudes and professionalism -- Programmatic assessment -- Sect. 6: Staff -- Staff development -- Academic standards and scholarship -- Sect. 7: Students -- Student selection -- Student support -- Student engagement in learning -- Peer-assisted learning -- Sect. 8: Medical school -- Understanding medical school leardership: medical teachers as agents of change -- Medical education leardership -- The medical teacher and social accountability -- The educational environment -- Medical education research.