I really hate these types of articles. They take the perceived experience of two people from one university (or in this case, medical school), and make vast, wide-reaching claims about processes and trends across an entire discipline. Worse, they are opinion pieces which imply that they are based on actual reality rather than perceived reality based on very narrow and very limited experience.
What “data” do we have?
The perception of a single medical student and a single professor who does not even provide actual numbers for his own class.
I’m sorry, but this is nothing but a medical school student pushing what is likely their hobby-horse, namely “flipped classroom” as a “solution” for a “problem”.
Not once in the entire article does the author prove that the problem exists, and not once does he demonstrate that his proposed solution actually is a solution.
I have said many times that an MD is not a research degree, and that MDs are poorly trained, or not trained at all, in research methodology. This is a classic example.
PS. Not criticizing you, @WayOutWestMom, I’m criticizing the author and the good people at NPR whose entire critical abilities seem to have failed.