TY  - JOUR
T1  - "The needs of medical education as revealed by the war"
Y1  - 1919/04/12
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1919.02610150034012
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1076
EP  - 1077
VL  - 72
IS  - 15
N2  - When the United States entered the great war, the Medical Corps of the Army consisted of less than 450 regular medical officers. When the armistice was signed this body had expanded to more than 32,000 officers; practically all of the increase represented volunteers from the medical profession in civilian life. The views of one of the regular medical officers regarding the great body of civilian physicians with which he came in contact on their entrance into military service appear in this issue.1 General Munson gives his estimate of the professional qualifications of the medical men from civilian life, as seen and studied in the medical officers' training camps. He indicates that the civilian physicians entering the Army were a selected group and therefore their qualifications averaged higher than the general average of civilian physicians.Along with General Munson's paper we are also publishing a letter2 and a reply
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1919.02610150034012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610150034012
ER  -