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Show by Dr. Donal F. Magee (Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacy' at Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Neb.) OMAHA, NEB. believe we should take medical students directly out of high school, skip college, and give them a good five-- , or at the medical school course. The most, in four years they now spend as college are an absolute waste of time. I admit this would mean a revolution in our system of medical education. But that's just what we need to solve the present critical shortage of doctors by getting more, younger, and better physicians. Almost everywhere in the world students are admitted to medical school directly from high school. The only exceptions I know are the U.S.A., Canada and Japan. And remember that the medical schools in Scandinavia, Holland and Great Britain, to name a few, are the equal of any here. The four years of college now required for medical school are, in my opinion, mostly remedial. In many areas, the college is trying to repair what high school failed to do. After over 20 years of teaching medical students. I'm not convinced that college "broadens" them. I've had senior medical students who despite their literature courses spoke and wrote grammatically poor English. Our high school graduates are as bright, intelligent and capable as any young people in the world. We should not permit the inadequacies of our system of secondary education to penalize both the prospective doctor and the public which needs better medisix-ye- ar "pre-med- s" cal care. So I propose that we offer medical training to the best high school graduates at the age of 17 or 18. Entrance to medical school should be by examination in high school sub- jects and aptitude tests. To gain admission, a student would have to be able to write good, clear English, and to attain an agreed-o- n standard in English literature. Foreign languages could be bypassed, but not math or general science. I do not believe we can substantially improve medical education by reforms confined to the four-yemedical curriculum. In the new five- - or medical school itself, we would need radical changes in the curriculum. Oui doctors need to be better ar six-ye- ar taught and pr spared than they are now. The average medical school today attempts to teach too much in too short a time. Under my proposal, instead of starting a student immediately with anatomy andor biochemistry, I'd have him learn chemistry, biology and physics in his freshman year at medical school. In his second year he would begin biochemistry, physiology and anatomy. In his third, he'd go on to microbiology, pathology and pharmacology. Only toward the end of the third year would he be introduced to clinical medicine, which he'd continue in his fourth year, plus pharmacology and therapeutics the treatment of diseases with drugs. aluminum West Bond Got this hoavy-gaug- o 2Vi quart casserole server for just $5.99. 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Doctors coming out of such a school would he, I believe, better trained and equipped to serve their patients than many physicians turned out by the existing system. Such schools would also open up the possibility of a medical career to many worthy but o less applicants who cannot stand the present financial burden of eight years' education to become a doctor. It would enable doctors to begin their careers with fewer financial debts to pay off, and thus lessen the pressure on them to earn large fees at the outset. And since the doctors would be younger when they go into practice, they could look forward to a professional career two or three years longer. With a system like this, I am Convinced we would have many more good doctors than we have ever had before, and in shorter time. Unless we make such a change, I fear we are headed for an era of medical chaos. well-to-d- spoons and spatulas. 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