SPECIAL ARTICLE

26 February 1955

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA

Vol. 157 (9) , 703-708
https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1955.02950260009003

Abstract

SCOPE AND EXTENT OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES Douglas D. Vollan, M.D., Chicago The education of a physician is a continuum from its beginnings in college to the day he retires from practice. This concept was well stated by William Henry Welch¹in 1892: Medical education is not completed at the medical school: it is only begun. Hence it is not only the quantity of knowledge which the student takes with him from the school which will help him in his future work; it is also the quality of mind, the disciplined habit of correct reasoning, the methods of work, the way of looking at medical problems, the estimate of the value of evidence. Medicine is both a dynamic science and a vital art. Every year, every month, and every day brings new changes in the panorama of knowledge of human biology, human disease, and related

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