RT Journal
A1 Snapper I
T1 REsearch and the teacher of medicine
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD May 23
VO 170
IS 4
SP 442
OP 445
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03010040038009
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010040038009
AB There can be no doubt that an effective teacher of medicine must be deeply interested in medical research. The faculties of the medical schools have understood this for many centuries. Every time one or more clinical chairs became vacant, the schools searched for new incumbents among physicians or surgeons who were (1) outstanding teachers, (2) experts in the clinical field they were going to teach, and (3) well-trained experimenters who had made contributions to the scientific aspects of their own fields of medicine. In different schools different degrees of emphasis have been placed on these three requirements, and in certain medical schools the trustees and overseers may have been too interested in whether the professor or the associate professors taught sufficiently and efficiently. In modern times it seems as if this emphasis has changed. In many areas interest in discoveries in medical research has taken the place of interest in