Beyond critical and courageous thinking: let’s make medical education better

Can we agree that making the world a better place is a valuable goal? If our world happens to be medical education, at least for a good part of the day, could we agree that making medical education just a little better than it was before is a priority? While I wrote for the last issue of the CMEJ (and I still believe) that we are in desperate need of critical and courageous thinking,1 we need to move beyond thinking to doing. And not just doing what’s easy and expedient2 but making the sacrifice (personal or otherwise) to choose the best way forward for our learners and their patients