Sir James Paget's research into medical education.

نویسنده

  • I C McManus
چکیده

Paget’s eponymous disease ensures that the name of Sir James Paget (1814–99) is known to all doctors and many patients. Specialists also know of Paget’s abscess, Paget’s disease of the nipple, Paget’s extramammary disease, Paget-von Schrötter syndrome, Paget’s recurrent desmoid tumour of the rectus sheath, Pagetoid epithelioma, juvenile Paget’s disease, and Paget’s quiet necrosis of bone, and that Paget first described carpal tunnel syndrome. In his long life (table 1), Paget had many other achievements. Parasitologists are aware that, in 1835, Paget first described the pork parasite Trichinella spiralis, and historians know him as an influential President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London. Contemporaries also knew him as an outstanding orator, whose “beautiful thoughts, clothed in the choicest words” so impressed the young William Osler when he heard Paget’s presidential address to the 7th International Medical Congress in London. In this article, I suggest that Paget was also the first person to undertake recognisably modern research into medical education: in an article published in 1869 he anticipated many of the approaches of modern research in medical education, and established it as a scientific discipline based on statistical analysis of empirical data. Sir James Paget (figure 1) was an example of the Victorian triumph of hard work over adversity. He was Sir James Paget’s research into medical education

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Lancet

دوره 366 9484  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2005