Return to Proprietary Apprentice Medical Education?
Abstract
To the Editor.—
I report an alarming occurrence that colleagues inform me is not at all unusual. A medical student attending a proprietary medical school in Mexico requested that he spend his entire neurology clerkship passively observing my hospital rounds. There was no requirement for his working up patients, let alone critique of his neurological examination and diagnostic and therapeutic formulations. Nevertheless, he stated he would be given full credit by his medical school for...