New American Medical Schools

New Medical Schools

One of the most valuable of recent efforts for the treatment of mental disease has been the establishment of the Maudsley Hospital with its pathological department for the purpose of research in psychological medicine. Started at the suggestion of Dr. Henry Maudsley, who gave altogether ?40,000 towards the cost of building, it was erected for the teaching of this subject, and for the treatment,...

Teaching of physiology in American medical schools.

Encounter on the Airwaves This article, describing the poignant feelings of our Executive Director as he defended the use of animals in research on a Washington-based radio talk show, is important for you to read to grasp the real intent of animal rights activists and to formulate a means of communicating the importance of animal research to local citizens when you are called on to defend our l...

New perspectives--approaches to medical education at four new UK medical schools.

Should medical schools be schools for virtue?

I n the Republic , Plato recounts the myth of Gyges, who wore a ring that allowed him to become invisible simply by turning the ring around his finger. 1 Gyges misused the ring’s powers to seduce the wife of the king, kill him, and take over the country. The lesson that Plato drew from this myth was that the person of true virtue is the one who can be trusted to do the right thing, even when no...

Medical schools seeking new ways to cope with funding cutbacks.

Cuts in government funding mean that Canada's medical schools have to seek new ways to raise funds. Susan Thorne examines some of the ways faculties of medicine are coping with change. In the brave new world of medical education, schools are combining classes for medical students and other health professionals, seeking business alliances, encouraging attendance by full-tuition students from oth...