TY  - JOUR
T1  - REsearch and the teacher of medicine
AU  - Snapper I
Y1  - 1959/05/23
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1959.03010040038009
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 442
EP  - 445
VL  - 170
IS  - 4
N2  - There can be no doubt that an effective teacher of medicine must be deeply interested in medical research. The faculties of the medical schools have understood this for many centuries. Every time one or more clinical chairs became vacant, the schools searched for new incumbents among physicians or surgeons who were (1) outstanding teachers, (2) experts in the clinical field they were going to teach, and (3) well-trained experimenters who had made contributions to the scientific aspects of their own fields of medicine. In different schools different degrees of emphasis have been placed on these three requirements, and in certain medical schools the trustees and overseers may have been too interested in whether the professor or the associate professors taught sufficiently and efficiently. In modern times it seems as if this emphasis has changed. In many areas interest in discoveries in medical research has taken the place of interest in
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1959.03010040038009
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1959.03010040038009
ER  -