Lay participation in medical school curriculum development: whose problem is it?

The article informs that introducing lay participation into activities such as determining medical student learning goals, teaching and assessment methods, or evaluation parameters will represent a major shift in practice for medical schools. Many schools have recently undergone major curriculum revisions and may be slow to embrace further change. In future, the lay community will become increasingly dissatisfied with a lack of participation in the medical curriculum. The ethos of lay participation suggests that medical schools should be accountable to their communities for achieving successful models of lay participation in medical curriculum development.