Client-Focus: Where Professional Education Seems to Be Going

In most professions, we see the following trends over the last 100 years in professional education once it gets into the universities:

1. Practice
2. Science and social science (with an attempt to avoid (1). You'll learn it later.
3. Design and problem-based with some of (2)

What next?

4. Client-focused: What do they need? How could you and they know better what they need? (This may involve study outside the field.)