In a message dated 05/05/98 18:51:48 GMT, you write:
<< I have students too, they are far sleepier and less alert! I feel that
medical education as it is takes out any enthusiasm for the subject
before they get very far! (stand back, awaiting flack) >>
Agree 100% with you. I've taken undergraduate medics for a number of years and
three things stand out:
1. It's surprising how little bread and butter medicine they know and how
little they know about the drug treatment of common ailments.
2. They are often knowledgable about the rarities eg. Waldenstrom's
Macroglobulinaemia.
3. They have the erroneous, preconceived impression that General Practice is
a doss.
I've often thought that the course at Leeds is too theoretical with the
clinical elements being taught by "superspecialists" with very restricted
clinical interests.
Jeremy Sager
GP
Leeds (and qualified in Leeds in 1980)
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