THE USE OF A LOAN COLLECTION AND PHOTOMICROGRAPHS
- 9 October 1915
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. LXV (15) , 1273-1275
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1915.02580150047014
Abstract
Perhaps one of the most obvious defects in the usual method of teaching pathology lies in the restrictions which are imposed on the student. Too often the method is such that all he can do is to memorize certain statements of the textbooks and instructors, and to fix in his mind the appearance of certain slides rather than to read the cell changes going on in the tissues and thereby gain a plastic living conception of the processes at work in the specimen being studied. It is generally recognized that the method rather than any particular content is the essence of scientific discipline. As Oertel1says: "Medical education is primarily directed toward the development of the powers of observation and of a scientific method of thinking." One of the chief problems, therefore, in offering a course in pathology is to present it so that the student may be ableKeywords
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