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In Reply.— In all of the previous letters there seems to be recognition that changes in medical education are occurring. I was aware that innovations in both medical student selection and shifts in curriculum were being made in many more schools than those cited in my commentary. I was not aware, however, that the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine was offering a combined program leading to both baccalaureate and medical degrees to applicants directly from high school. The plan seems well conceived. I am sympathetic with the problems stated and inferred in the last two letters. Unlike most students, Mr Harper is asking for even more direction from both premedical and medical faculties as to what to study and how to do it, without too much soul-searching on his part to determine his ultimate goals. In his example of treating a bricklayer with a slipped disk, he indulges
JAMA – American Medical Association
Published: Jan 7, 1983
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