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A Dilemma for the National Board of Medical Examiners

John P. Hubbard, MD

JAMA. 1971;217(12):1698.

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For the past two years, the National Board of Medical Examiners has set as the theme for its annual invitational conferences the changes in medical education and the effect of these changes on the nationwide examinations of the board. In the March 1970 conference, students, interns, and residents were included as members of a panel to interact with each other and to respond to questions from the floor; in the March 1971 conference, the panelists were chairmen (past or present) of the board's committees that are responsible for creating the examinations in the basic sciences (morning panel) and the clinical sciences (afternoon panel). A significant similarity appeared between the opinions of the recipients of medical education in 1970 and the providers of medical education in 1971, demonstrating thereby, on the one hand, the present-day sense of responsibility and participation of students in the affairs of the faculty and, on the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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National Board of Medical Examiners Philadelphia

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