RT Journal
A1 ZINSSER H
T1 RElationship of the fundamental laboratory to clinical teaching
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD April 27
VO 92
IS 17
SP 1399
OP 1402
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700430001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700430001001
AB The storm and stress period through which medical education has been passing is largely due to the fact that experimental methods in the medical sciences have begun to come into their own. What Claude Bernard said a generation ago in regard to the general empiricism of medicine as contrasted with the more exact sciences is still to some extent true, but the influence of the laboratory sciences has considerably modified this and will encroach more and more on the purely doctrinal and empiric methods of practice. While the importance of judgment, personality and character will never be entirely displaced by pure science in the management of patients, enough accurate scientific fact and method have already been introduced into medicine to make a thorough training in the fundamentals from which these facts are derived essential to the development of the personal qualities.It is the recognition of this situation which has