Reformers in medical education and practice
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Throughout the history of medicine, the standards of professional practice were constantly shifting to keep pace with acquired knowledge. Some of the reformers described below established those standards. Occasionally, standards fell short of professional expectations: perhaps teaching programs or instructors did not keep pace with medical progress or perhaps practising physicians were concerned more with financial gain or professional reward than with effective patient treatment or cure. Fortunately, the medical profession had its fair crop of reformers who altered the way medicine was practised, taught or administered. I suggest that a reformer is an individual or group who consciously or unconsciously changes the structure or ideology of any facet of the medical profession truly affecting the life of a local or larger society. One type of medical reform may have as its primary purpose the assessment and evaluation of the system’s process, procedures, management or governance and the recommendation of measures to correct, improve or replace the existing system. Other reformers throughout the period of history of medicine covered in this study were unusually talented persons
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