A half-life of 5 years.

E Emanuel - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1975 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
A phrase is in the air: the half-life of medical knowledge (or is it of a med¬ ical education?) is
5 years. Because I have been in practice for 35 years my knowledge has been subject to …

Half-life of medical knowledge.

AJ Macgregor - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1975 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
CMA JOURNAL/MAY 17, 1975/VOL. 112 1165 uates of the University of British Columbia to
stay 2 years behind the times in therapeutics. I believe he was simply telling us to use critical …

MEDICINE—A LIFELONG STUDY

RB Allen - Journal of the American Medical Association, 1959 - jamanetwork.com
AM proud to have the honor of welcoming you to this great conference on medical education
and of saluting you for your dedication to the profession of medicine and to medical …

Maintaining contact with medical knowledge

DD Rutstein - New England Journal of Medicine, 1961 - Mass Medical Soc
I WISH to express my deep appreciation for the opportunity of serving as the president of the
Boylston Society during its sesquicentennial year. I am very mindful of the honor of …

Progress in graduate medical education: Report of the chairman of the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals

RL Wilbur - Journal of the American Medical Association, 1940 - jamanetwork.com
The practice of medicine is a continuous process of education. The doctor who stops
learning goes backward, even though he may be growing older and making motions that go …

In a lifetime

IJ Walker - New England Journal of Medicine, 1956 - Mass Medical Soc
IT is natural for an audience to assume that one who has survived beyond the Biblical age of
three score years and ten might touch upon a few changes in professional activities during a …

Medical progress and medical education

AM Jones - British Medical Journal, 1952 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
I am grateful to Dr. HL Bockus for arranging a part-time research fellowship in his
department at the Graduate Hospital, the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Thomas A …

Medical Education in the 18th Century

MD Warren - Postgraduate medical journal, 1951 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It is not only at the present time that uneasiness has been felt about the state of medical
education. In i65i Dr. Robert Wittie published an English translation of a book called'Popular …

Today's trends in medical education

D O'Hara - New England Journal of Medicine, 1950 - Mass Medical Soc
YOUR kind invitation to talk this evening about today's trends in medical education was one I
was happy to accept—not because I have any pet convictions to fan, but rather because I …

Changing dimensions of medical knowledge: their implications for medical education, research, and practice

HH Hussey - Journal of the American Medical Association, 1958 - jamanetwork.com
It is evident to everyone that dimensions of medical knowledge have changed. Wood gave
the dimensions and described the changes at the 53rd Annual Congress. 1 However, one …