Cornell University Medical College - Samaritan Yearbook (New York, NY)

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. . . the pre-clifzicfzl courses. Bacteriology labemtory. on didactic lectures and parrotted procedures. This will give the student the factual material he must have and it will promote physical dexterity-but it will not promote mental dexterity and this is certainly the physician's most valuable asset. It is an undeniable fact that, although the classes in medical schools are small, and the facultyfstudent ratio high, the students have less time for individual exploration and expression than in any other graduate training. Efforts are made to alleviate this by the smalll group arrangement of laboratory time, the requirement of special theses in several departments, the ward case study and the small tutor groups of the clinical years. But even much of this time is unfortunately dedicated to senseless repetition of the didactic material. Actual elective time is at a minimum. The 'benefit the student will derive from the work he does in small units is often directly related to the interest and capability of the tutor at hand. This type of -teaching requires more skill than the giving of lectures, and it is perhaps the greatest fault of our medical education that our teachers give more thought to their medicine than to their teaching-more thought to their content than to their method. By this we do not imply that they do not do enough spoon feediingf' Quite the opposite-in most cases they do not do enough to stimulate the student to think through and beyond the problems with which he is confronted. It is not enough to tell the student that he must work things out for himself. The approach to medical problems is largely unfamiliar to the student until late in his career and its aspects are confusing. A certain amount of further effort must be expended to point out to the student in which areas, and by which methods, he may most fruitfully work on his own. This is especially important in the third year where the student must do a good deal of unpleasant, routine work in which he is very likely to bog down unless his interests are steered into more inspiring channels. lf the clinical work is not intelligently supervised, the student .10. . . . the mm!! group mwzfzgement of labomlory time. Pbyriology experiment. may fail to make the necessary extrapolations from his individual case work. Studies in education during the recent war brought to light precepts which may be of use to us in concluding our survey of medical teaching. Over and over again it was proven that by using the newly developed visual and other aids it was possible to teach a large amount of material to a large number of students in a relatively short period of time. The material thus presented was generally well assimilated so that it was long remembered and easily available for implementation. It is possible that some of these methods may take their place in the teaching of college level courses and the preclinical work in medical school. If so, they may significantly shorten the amount of time needed to train students in these subjects. But this must be the only way in which such shortening can come about-through the introduction of new and more efficient teaching methods. For the other important lesson the war taught us was that students were ill equipped to cope with graduate study when their undergraduate training was actually curtailed under the existing methods. This was just as true in medical school as in any other, and we must guard carefully against letting a similar situa- tion develop because of -our own efforts to shorten the preparatory time in medicine. The clinical subjects may also benefit to some extent from these new systems, but clinical teaching is already well suited to its subject matter and requires only the more careful training in teaching of those who do it. In the first fifty years of its history Cornell has developed from its uncertain, strife-riddeni inception to one of the foremost medical schools in the world, This growth was possible because of the progressive spirit prevailing among the men who directed its destiny. We certainly trust that in the future a similar spirit of enlightenment will carry Cornell to even greater heights. Richard Horace Granger.

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