Medical Schools In the United States In Mid-Century

This volume constitutes the report of the Survey of Medical Education, which was organized in 1947, sponsored, and financed by the American Medical Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. It is a factual self-analysis and evaluation of medical education in the United States at mid-twentieth century, based on a survey of 41 carefully selected representative institutions. Conclusions are based on facts and opinions obtained from deans, faculties, and medical students and represents an authoritative current evaluation of medical education, its leadership, function, and finances in the United States. The increasingly complex nature and ever-widening scope of responsibilities and activities of today's medical school are well portrayed and analyzed. Modern medical school functions are indicated to be education, research, and service, so interwoven in most instances that the costs of medical education have not been clearly differentiated from the research and service aspects. The