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BECOMING A PHYSICIAN Volume 351:1163-1164 September 16, 2004 Number 12 Next

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Medical students occupy a curious position in the history of the American medical school. Before World War II, the education of medical students was the central mission of medical schools, and undergraduate medical education remains their one unique mission. Yet after World War II, as medical faculties expanded their activities in graduate-level teaching, research, and patient care, the education of medical students became no more than a byproduct of the operation of academic health centers.¹

The diminishing visibility of the medical student is not in itself harmful for medical education, provided that faculties take students and teaching seriously. However, from . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis.

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