Learning Medicine

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A tongue-in-cheek, not-so-scientific, but revealing paper in this issue of the Journal 1 documents what many of us have suspected for years: that students are assigned too many books, that they buy fewer books than their teachers think they do, and that they don't read many. If they did read all they were assigned, they would probably have little time for anything else. Missing from this particular description of reading requirements and from many assignments in medical schools across the country is any mention of the value to students of reading journals. Books may be basic, but journals are essential for . . .

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