Whither the Director of Medical Education?

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IT has been said that medicine is the only profession dedicated to its own eventual dissolution. Within medicine, I know of no specialty group that is more rapidly sowing the seeds of its own dissolution than the directors of medical education. The position of educational director on the teaching hospital staff is barely a decade old, and yet I believe it is rapidly becoming obsolete — a transition between the old, loose staff structure and the tightly knit one that is needed to run the effective educational programs of today.Most experienced educational directors believe that full-time clinical chiefs are . . .

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