Observations on the Revised Curriculum of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

Abstract

DURING a meeting of the curriculum committee in the early days of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Dr. William S. Halsted, the rest-less and busy professor of surgery, became annoyed with the tedium of the discussion. He arose and said, "Gentlemen, it makes little difference how the courses are planned. I want only good teachers and receptive students." Whereupon, he withdrew. His action and words gave expression again to the Hippocratic doctrine of medical education. It has become an accepted truism that the success of a medical school's teaching program resides to a greater extent in its teachers than . . .