JAMA Network June 27, 2024
These are days of flux in matters pertaining to medical education. Commissions, foundations, societies, faculties and even legislatures are engaged in the investigation of the medical curriculums. We hear the old, familiar cry that “something is fundamentally wrong” in our current system; and the outsider, listening as an untutored observer unfamiliar with the history of science, may even begin to believe the old Latin proverb that there is more danger from the physician than from the disease. A generation or more ago, when bacteriology was beginning to evolve as a fruitful science and biochemistry became...