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Charlene Breedlove, MA; Hannah Hedrick, PhD

JAMA. 1992;268(17):2427.

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Every year since 1901, THE JOURNAL has devoted an issue to medical education in the United States. The history recorded in these education issues presents the expanded scope and increased complexity of the data collected by the American Medical Association (AMA) in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education and reflects the AMA's more than 100-year commitment to medical education and more than 50 years of support for education in allied health professions.

The first education issue¹ encompassed in six pages the AMA's database on each of the 156 US medical schools; the bulk of the issue contained articles on such perennial concerns as the aims of medical education, how best to integrate didactic instruction with laboratory and clinical teaching, the risk of a physician surplus, and an inquiry into who the medical students should be and what motivates them to become physicians. Later issues have revisited these topics, but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Scientific Publications Group (Ms Breedlove) and the Medical Education Group (Dr Hedrick), American Medical Association, Chicago, III.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Scientific Publications Group, American Medical Association, 515 N State St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Ms Breedlove).

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