RT Journal
T1 MOre on medical students and their schools
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1969
FD March 24
VO 207
IS 12
SP 2275
OP 2275
DO 10.1001/jama.1969.03150250105015
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1969.03150250105015
AB In the second of two articles dealing with medical schools and their inhabitants, Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, Director, Program for Research in Medical Education, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard, reports his impressions gained from personal experience and from interviews with students and faculty in a number of institutions.1 The attitudes he found bear out the already apparent recognition by all concerned that it is time for a change, in fact, many changes, in the medical educational program. These he discusses with thoroughness and insight, but some of his conclusions leave room for carping. Among other points, he lists and elaborates on the problems of students that are "most injurious to their learning and personal development." Not everyone would agree that all of these are peculiar to medical education, and, in some of his criticisms of the system, he speaks as if he were unaware (which he is not) that