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Reform in Medical Education: President's Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Naturalists, New York, December 29, 1898
Excerpt from Reform in Medical Education
It would doubtless be found desirable in practice not to confine the possibility of taking elective courses to the year in which the required instruction is given, for a student may frequently in the latter part of his course become interested in a subject like mental diseases, for instance, and will then be glad of an Opportunity to take special instruction on the physiology of cerebral localization. The elective courses should, therefore, be so arranged that they may be taken in any part of the medical curriculum. There is, in my opinion, no doubt that an arrange ment of instruction similar to that here suggested for physiology could be advantageously adopted in the departments of anatomy, histology, bacteriology, medical chemistry, pathology, surgery and in the courses of instruction in the various special diseases, such as dermatology. Opthalmology, etc. Whether the instruction in clinical medicine and clinical surgery can be thus modified is a question about which more doubt may be entertained, and which I prefer to leave to persons of greater experience than myself in methods of clinical instruction.
It would doubtless be found desirable in practice not to confine the possibility of taking elective courses to the year in which the required instruction is given, for a student may frequently in the latter part of his course become interested in a subject like mental diseases, for instance, and will then be glad of an Opportunity to take special instruction on the physiology of cerebral localization. The elective courses should, therefore, be so arranged that they may be taken in any part of the medical curriculum. There is, in my opinion, no doubt that an arrange ment of instruction similar to that here suggested for physiology could be advantageously adopted in the departments of anatomy, histology, bacteriology, medical chemistry, pathology, surgery and in the courses of instruction in the various special diseases, such as dermatology. Opthalmology, etc. Whether the instruction in clinical medicine and clinical surgery can be thus modified is a question about which more doubt may be entertained, and which I prefer to leave to persons of greater experience than myself in methods of clinical instruction.
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Published August 24, 2018
About the author
Henry Pickering Bowditch
23 booksGrandson of
Nathaniel Bowditch
Henry Pickering Bowditch (April 4, 1840 – March 13, 1911) was an American soldier, physician, physiologist, and dean of the Harvard Medical School. Following his teacher Carl Ludwig, he promoted the training of medical practitioners in a context of physiological research. His teaching career at Harvard spanned 35 years.
Henry Pickering Bowditch (April 4, 1840 – March 13, 1911) was an American soldier, physician, physiologist, and dean of the Harvard Medical School. Following his teacher Carl Ludwig, he promoted the training of medical practitioners in a context of physiological research. His teaching career at Harvard spanned 35 years.
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