Attitudes toward Patients of Full-Time and Practicing Instructors as Revealed in Student Questionnaires

IN 1929 Russell L. Cecil1 said in an address before the American Medical Association, "The time may come, twenty or thirty years hence, when the entire training of undergraduate medical students will be taken over by full-time professors and instructors. At the present time, however, the practitioner still fills an indispensable place on the teaching staff of the medical school." Thirty-five years have passed, and, although the number of full-time teachers has increased tremendously, there is no indication that they will take over the entire training of the undergraduate student. Many reasons are given for the strong dependence of medical . . .