TY  - JOUR
T1  - COmpetitive examinations.
AU  - Lewis HF
Y1  - 1899/05/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1899.02450470023002
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1101
EP  - 1102
VL  - XXXII
IS  - 20
N2  - Chicago, May 13, 1899.To the Editor: 
    —The letter from Dr. Bayard Holmes (see April 29, p. 927) and one in the Journal of May 13 (p. 1043), from "R." of Cincinnati, concerning the written examinations for internes of the Cook County Hospital, present a subject of interest to graduates and well-wishers of the institution. It is perfectly obvious that a purely written test of an applicant's knowledge of medical science and practice can never be a good test. As Dr. Holmes says, this method of conducting the hospital examination has resulted in causing the promising men in the medical schools of Chicago to spend the last year of their course in cramming with word knowledge and to devoting their time to quizzes, to the neglect of the clinic and other legitimate work of the year; this too, with the approval of the faculties. The men who carry off the
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1899.02450470023002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450470023002
ER  -