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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kenneth M Ludmerer |
| ISBN: | 0195118375 9780195118377 |
| OCLC Number: | 40575431 |
| Description: | xxvi, 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Creating the system -- The American medical school between the world wars -- Undergraduate medical education -- The rise of graduate medical education -- Teaching hospitals -- Academic medical centers and the public -- World War II and medical education -- The ascendancy of research -- The expansion of clinical service -- The maturation of graduate medical education -- The forgotten medical student -- Medicare, medicaid, and medical education -- Medical education in an era of protest and civil rights -- Academic health centers under stress: external pressures -- Academic health centers under stress: internal dilemmas -- Internal malaise -- Medical education in an era of cost containment and managed care -- A second revolutionary period. |
| Other Titles: | American medical education in the 20th century |
| Responsibility: | Kenneth M. Ludmerer. |
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<br>"The changes [in academic medicine] during the second half of the 20th century have been nothing short of amazing. In Time to Heal and its predecessor, Ludmerer chronicles these changes brilliantly. We can confidently expect medical education to continue to evolve, and I hope we can look forward to Ludmerer's next volume for his comments on these future developments." -- Robert G. Petersdorf, Science<br>"Ludmerer gives us a memorably thoughtful, complete, and deeply scholarly narrative, which is at the same time so lucid and attractively written that it is difficult to put down once begun. This perfectly glorious achievement is destined to be hailed as one of the most important works on medical history and education ever published. It stands shoulder to shoulder with Flexner's."--Sherwin B. Nuland, author of How We Die<br>"Kenneth Ludmerer has created a masterpiece of great national importance."--Leighton E. Cluff, Past President, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation<br>"An exception Read more...
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