EDUCATION

WHEN my former colleague and old friend, your president, asked me to speak to you this evening, he suggested two topics that he thought might be of sufficient interest to you to justify my presence at your annual meeting. His first suggestion was that I present to you some thoughts on medical education. Coming from a school whose attitude towards this is regarded by some as distinctly heterodox, if not downright Unamerican, and also considering that I have recently finished a term as the Executive Officer of this school, I must confess that I felt that the memoirs of an ex-dean, or as President Truman would say a former Dean, while they might be of considerable local interest, would, under the circumstances, be fatiguing but certainly not fascinating or fattening.