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TO THE EDITOR: —I have read the Current Comment on this subject (The Journal, May 6, 1916, p. 1471) with much interest. It points the direction that medical education will have to take, but a word of warning should be sounded lest a fetish be made of the word "university," and weak medical schools be linked together without having real university methods and equipment. Medical teaching cannot be improved until the unit system is established in the clinical as well as in the laboratory branches. How many universities have put their clinical teaching on a university basis? How many provide their professors in the clinical branches either directly or indirectly with hospital wards, dispensaries and laboratories? How many are prepared to meet the university ideal that a professor in a clinical branch shall have an active service of at least sixty beds and shall not attempt to give bedside instruction |
