Videotaped Autobiographical Interviews

Abstract

teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. Henry Brooks Adams combined truism and prescience with this epigram, but it is doubtful that he anticipated the important role which electronic devices would play in stretching the educational reach of the investigator and clinician. A largely untapped resource in this category is the videotaped interview with medical scientists and teachers who have influenced significantly the thinking of their peers. Students presented with searching, illuminative kinescoped dialogues between perceptive interrogators and eminent medical persons would find this form of medical history informative and even inspiring. Both the men and their contributions would come alive. Educators in medical schools will be disappointed if they expect more than a few of their students to manifest serious interest in the historical figures of ancient and medieval times. This revelation should not come as a shock since it is difficult for today's