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John S. Kirkland

JAMA. 1970;213(2):278-279.

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A merican medical education has reached a point of crisis. Although the quality of education is for the most part excellent, the quantity is grossly insufficient to meet the needs of today's society for health services. The demand for additional health services in the '70s will, in all likelihood, outstrip our capacity to provide them, and it behooves each of us concerned with health education to consider innovative approaches to dealing with these problems. In this presentation I will consider only one of the many problems facing the American health care system. I will speak primarily from personal experience, both as an allied health professional and as a medical student, as I address myself to the academic isolation of medical students, in their training, from other health professions students.

Medical education has undergone many progressive changes in the past decade and many of the newer schools are experimenting with innovative . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Standing Committee on Medical Education, Student American Medical Association. Mr. Kirkland is a student at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta.

Footnotes
Read before the 66th annual Congress on Medical Education, sponsored by the AMA Congress on Medical Education, Chicago, Feb 8,1970.

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