Abstract

To the Editor.— In the article Interface Between Undergraduate and Graduate Medical (241:1148, 1979), William D. Holden, MD, names a problem in medical education but does not define it. For my personal use, define the interface as the transition from juvenile education to adult education. My insight was stimulated some years ago when, in another context, heard William Griffith, of the Department of Education of the University of Chicago, make the following statement: I think that one of our greatest problems in dealing with [teaching] adults is the fact that they have been children. There is a difference between juvenile and adult education; the difference is definable and recognizable, but the details of a medical school curriculum content, elective or required, are not much to the point. The schoolchild, college student, and medical student are fit into the juvenile education system lacking well-defined personal goals and

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