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edited by Linda H. Distlehorst, Gary L. Dunnington, and J. Roland Folse, 343 pp, $79.95, ISBN 0-8058-3542-3, Mahwah, NJ, Lawrence A. Erlbaum Associates Inc, 2000.

Arch Surg. 2001;136:235.

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This book is authored by a virtual "who's who" in medical education. The nidus seems to be Southern Illinois University School of Medicine where many of the authors reside. Other authors included were at one time or another on the faculty there. There are 36 authors listed of whom 4 appear to be surgeons. This book is divided into 4 major sections that deal with the history and evolution of medical school education, the development of this art and science, curricular change, and a section opining the challenges and changes that will be seen in the not too distant future.

Although education serves as the Greek root of the word "physician," medical education as a recognized entity did not emerge as a distinct field of endeavor until the early 1960s. This was just at the brink of the phenomenal growth of medical schools within this country. I have always been . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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