TY - JOUR T1 - THe needs of medical education as revealed by the war AU - MUNSON EL Y1 - 1919/04/12 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610150008004 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 1050 EP - 1055 VL - 72 IS - 15 N2 - It is regretted that accurate statistical data to support statements made herein are not yet available, but lack of time as yet has made impossible the analysis of the vast amount of data in the records of the Surgeon-General's Office pertaining to this subject. But the Surgeon-General's great interest in this matter will doubtless result in a critical study of the data and a presentation of the results at no distant date. I do not comment further with respect to the probable results of this future statistical study other than to venture the conviction that they will prove disconcerting to any who may have entertained the idea that general standards of medical education in this country have reached a satisfactory degree of excellence.You are accordingly asked to consider the following remarks as merely suggestive, as preliminary to the exact information later to be available, and as only embodying general SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610150008004 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610150008004 ER -