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The Viewpoint of the Medical Educator

John L. Caughey, Jr., MD

JAMA. 1970;213(12):2061-2062.

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As far as I know, medical educators have been most concerned about clinical externships engaged in by medical students during regular school terms. The traditional view of the medical educator about such clinical externships for medical students has been quite clear.

1. The medical school faculty knows what is best for the medical student and has designed the best possible sequence of experiences to facilitate his learning in a logical and sensible way.
   
2. It is disruptive when a student deviates from the prescribed program because he may learn something too early and not pay attention to more elementary things presented to him later in the regular curriculum of his school.
   
3. There is the distinct possibility that a student trying to learn something outside the pure environment of the university medical center will run into some kind of sinister environmental pollution which will partially paralyze his intellectual and ethical
   

Author Affiliations
From Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland.

Footnotes
Read before the 66th annual Congress on Medical Education, sponsored by the AMA Council on Medical Education, Chicago, Feb 9, 1970.

Reprint requests to 2109 Adelbert Rd, Cleveland 44106 (Dr. Caughey).

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