**11. Conclusion**

Modern medical education has witnessed significant changes and developments throughout the past 30 years while retaining the core values and identity of the medical profession. These changes have taken on many forms represented in the shift from pedagogy to andragogy, as well as keeping up with the latest discoveries in medical sciences and technology and their applications. The rapid leaps in sciences, technology, and medical practice must not divert our track away from the humanistic sense of the profession in caring for patients, their families, and the community at large. Adopting and utilizing various educational philosophies; applying diverse learning theories and frameworks; establishing distinct mission and vision statements congruent with the relatively novel biopsychosocial medical model; and creating educational programs that focus on producing graduates that become practitioners who are guided by a holistic, interdisciplinary, and humanistic framework is the responsibility of the medical profession. Maintaining up-to-date status that is congruent with the everchanging world of sciences and technology in both medical education and practice remain a big challenge for many schools of medicine around the world.
