RT Journal
A1 Aird I
T1 REsults of first world conference on medical education
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1959
FD August 29
VO 170
IS 18
SP 2155
OP 2157
DO 10.1001/jama.1959.03010180007003
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010180007003
AB I have distributed questionnaires to the 400 medical teachers who attended the First World Conference on Medical Education and received about 100 answers. About 20 correspondents replied that they had learned nothing new at the conference and that the conference had consequently had no effect on their teaching methods or on the medical curriculum in their medical schools.The great majority of the answers, however, expressed strong appreciation of the conference itself, and the value of the opportunity of informal conversation with delegates from other medical schools and other countries was frequently stressed. A majority of those answering could not single out any particular alteration in the method of teaching or in the content of the medical course, but they believed that the conference was responsible for a freshening revival of educational ideals. Most delegates seem to have been stimulated to renew their own positive thinking about educational aims and