EDITORIAL Engaging, interacting and connecting with our learners and teachers

The Author(s) 2013. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com In the first editorial of this year’s issue of Perspectives on Medical Education, Jan Borleffs [1] wrote about medical education being and becoming future proof: ‘Definitely, educational concepts based on previous approaches with proven effectiveness should be preserved, but the content of the programme needs to change in concurrence with the changes in society and the requirements for good health care in the next decades’. In this issue of PME, Jamiu Busari opens our eyes towards these changes in society and what the challenges are for good and sustainable health care, by ‘using’ the discourse of generation segmentation. Busari focuses on the changing needs and expectations of different generations as consumers of health care and as learners in the medical education domain. He characterises the new Millennial physician (born: 1985–2005) as ‘an expert in the science of medicine and (the interrelationships between) the social sciences and humanities related to clinical care ’ [2]. This is enforced by a letter to this journal from two students from the USA.