This Article  • Full text  • PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Related articles  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

To the Editor: The article by Dr Carney et al¹ did not discuss a body of medical literature that represents practical attempts to use their suggested methods to study medical education at the local, state, and national level. For example, in 1956 JAMA published a report of the career outcomes in the year 1950 of 5 cohorts of physicians that had graduated from the University of Buffalo School of Medicine starting in 1915.² In 1964, the Association of American Medical Colleges began a longitudinal study of the entering classes at 28 representative medical schools,³ and there were parallel initiatives at individual medical schools. The Longitudinal Study of Medical Education at Jefferson Medical College, which currently includes personal, academic, training and career outcome data on 9030 individuals since 1964, has yielded over 130 publications in peer-reviewed journals.⁴ This study spawned several multi-institutional longitudinal studies, including a system supported by the Robert . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan L. Rattner, MD
susan.rattner@jefferson.edu

J. Jon Veloski, MS
Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care
Jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, Pa

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?

RELATED ARTICLES

Educational Epidemiology
Thomas J. Beckman and David A. Cook
JAMA. 2004;292(24):2969.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Educational Epidemiology
Afschin Gandjour
JAMA. 2004;292(24):2969.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Educational Epidemiology
G. Michael Harper, Bruce Leff, and Patricia A. Thomas
JAMA. 2004;292(24):2970.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Educational Epidemiology—Reply
Patricia A. Carney, Catherine F. Pias, David W. Nierenberg, W. Blair Brooks, Therese A. Stukel, and Adam Keller
JAMA. 2004;292(24):2970-2971.
EXTRACT | FULL TEXT  

Educational Epidemiology: Applying Population-Based Design and Analytic Approaches to Study Medical Education
Patricia A. Carney, David W. Nierenberg, Catherine F. Pipas, W. Blair Brooks, Therese A. Stukel, and Adam M. Keller
JAMA. 2004;292(9):1044-1050.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT