RT Journal
A1 MINOT CS
T1 CErtain ideals of medical education
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD August 14
VO LIII
IS 7
SP 502
OP 508
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.92550070001001a
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.92550070001001a
AB It is the function of the teacher to perpetuate, by transmission to the on-coming generation, the knowledge and traditions on which civilization is based. We who have for our share of this indispensable work the transmission of medical knowledge and of medical traditions find the difficulties of getting our freight into the depots of youthful minds always numerous and often great. We, therefore, are constantly busy with efforts to improve our transactions by selecting the most valuable knowledge to transfer, by seeking devices to quicken the business, and by trying to save the labor-waste of the students. We have, besides, to add daily to our stock all the latest novelties. Despite all these pressing demands, we must keep the whole army of data in perfect order, under the command of general ideas and of natural laws. It is inevitable that the pressure on our energies should absorb