By Arleen Marcia Tuchman. 200 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993. $39.95. ISBN 0-19-508047-5.
It is well known that German academic medicine was an importantmodel for those who wished to improve American medical educationin the years just before and after the turn of this century.What is less often appreciated is that it was the German traditionin research and laboratory training that reformers such as AbrahamFlexner, William Henry Welch, and Franklin P. Mall wished totransplant to our universities. German clinical training atthe time was still largely conducted in the amphitheater, ata distance from the patient, and was really inferior to theclinical training that was being developed . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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