New Medical Schools

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Although I agreed to address myself to this title, I shall take the liberty of complying with the spirit but not the letter. Rather than speak of establishing new medical schools, I prefer to discuss ways of achieving the same ends through different means. The fact that there must be a major expansion of medical education needs no elaboration. Somewhere between 4,000 and 9,000 additional entering places must be made available before the end of the decade to meet the various goals that have been announced. Such demands clearly call for new thinking. Several factors of significance to medical education have appeared recently. The medical curriculum has undergone critical examination and change in most schools. Meanwhile, long overdue educational reforms have been taking place over the entire span from the lower grades through college. While the newer concepts of learning have by no means been universally adopted, many of those

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