RT Journal
A1 Edmonson JM
T1 A community of scholars: Recollections of early years of the medical college of ohio
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2012
FD October 3
VO 308
IS 13
SP 1380
OP 1381
DO 10.1001/jama.308.13.1380
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.308.13.1380
AB 
This lavishly illustrated work chronicles the founding in 1964 of the Medical College of Ohio (MCO) at Toledo and its first 4 decades of operation. The book is an admittedly “heterogeneous collection of memoirs, reminiscences, and reconstructions, for the most part personal accounts by those whose careers were intimately involved” (p 4). In this sense, it comprises a genre that might be unkindly termed “court history”—an accounting of a history to justify the path taken, seldom admitting shortcomings and glorifying success, however modest. But in this particular iteration, it is a true labor of love, inspired by revered emeritus professors Mark Rayport and J. Thomas Martin, who both brought to the school distinguished credentials and reputations and instilled in colleagues a striving for excellence.