Abstract
TO KNOW THE PAST is predict future. Macaulay, great historian, gave this advice. It is applicable many areas of human endeavor. Medical education is no exception. Perhaps then, gain perspective regarding our subject, several historical facts should be recalled and put on table for consideration. At same time, we shall need define terms. Vocational training is defined as pursuit of a regular employment or occupation; act, process or method of directing growth; instructing, educating, as by preceptorship. ' Higher education is defined as commonly business of a university.1 University business has been defined in many ways. Flexner2said that business of a university is to conserve knowledge and ideas. Newman,3in his magnificent discourse,The Idea of a University, states that the primary business of a university is neither inculcate virtue nor prepare for a vocation, but train mind. It will be wise use these definitions given by Webster, Flexner, and Newman from now on in considering our subject.
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