A National University of the Health Sciences

Abstract

Aus military medical school has been a subject of discussion for at least 65 years; it was the subject of a major presentation at a meeting of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States in 1903. Since 1953 Representative F. Edward Hebert of Louisiana has been the principal proponent of a military medical school. Uniformly this proposal has met with rejection not only by the armed services, but by the medical profession generally, and by medical educators particularly. The salient objections to a military medical school, documented in numerous responses and hearings, can be summarized somewhat as follows: A military medical academy is not a proper basis for the study of medicine. The least dogmatic of the professions, the curriculum of medical education is becoming more varied and abundant with every new class. Medicine is a profession which requires its practitioners to evaluate problems of disease in humans