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Robert C. Wallach, MD
New York

JAMA. 1970;213(2):300.

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To the Editor:—

I read with interest, but dismay, the recent editorial on "Relevance in Medical Education" (212:314, 1970). Dr. Kent seems to suggest that medical students no longer be required to retain a "mass of data" including anatomy, physiology, pathology, immunology and so forth. He is not concerned about the students "ability to memorize and retrieve factual or conceptual information." He would not have the medical school test the students ability in these areas. He suggests that when the student knows the scientific method and where the sources of information are that the student will then be an adequate physician.

I certainly hope that when my family or I need medical care, there is a reactionary irrelevant physician available who is well versed in both the basic sciences and clinical applications and can make judgments on the basis of information that he has previously assimilated and worked with, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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