Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1926.

  • Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Date:
1926
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Credit: Annual report of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital : 1926. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be put in operation, the school could then deal directly with the chiefs of service of the individual hospitals and hold them responsible for the entire clinical instruction of their apportioned block of third- and fourth-year students who in a sense would be apprenticed to the hospitals. The separate groups of students would on this basis become, during their two years of clinical work, personally acquainted with the staff and thoroughly familiar with the methods of procedure of one hospital rather than vaguely familiar with the methods and personalities of three. If the curricular difficulties of such a rearrange¬ ment could be surmounted, the advantages would be many. A healthy rivalry between the separate hos¬ pital units would lead to a betterment of the teach¬ ing conditions in each of them; the intimacy between teachers and students such as exists in the English hospital-schools would be made possible by the stu¬ dents’ prolonged sojourn in one institution; and the entire hospital staff would come to engage in a tutorial capacity for the particular group of students apprenticed to it, thereby widely expanding our present narrow and expensive system of apportion¬ ing individual tutors for selected small groups of students. The third point at issue, the present unsatisfactory system under which the students seek appointments, would be nearer solution on the proposed basis, for the responsibility of advising students in regard to their subsequent hospital internships would devolve upon the clinical teachers of the hospital to which they have been assigned, thereby relieving the Dean’s Office in the school from any obligation in the matter.