dent staff as teachers. A tradition of teaching as part of a residency program is essential for both resident and student. The resident staff spends a great deal of time with students. If the residents are good, they not only teach but inspire students by their knowledge, technique, and behavior. Enthusiasm for teaching should be a prime requisite in the selection of a resident. The residents learn by teaching as all of us do. I am certain that the students learn more by clinical participation and reading than they do by listening to lectures. One other advantage of this type of undergraduate teaching has become apparent to me. When students are part of the healing team, they become aware of the breadth of obstetrics and gynecology as a specialty. They see by example and through participation that a good teacher in obstetrics and gynecology has to be a capable surgeon and a capable internist, and that our specialty demands a respectable knowledge of all fields of medicine including pathology, radiology> psychiatry, pediatrics, biochemistry, and all the rest. It goes without saying that the professor and his staff must take care of patients directly, and participate directly in the healing team. By example, by action, and by word they inspire. Students are attracted into the residency program by this method of teaching. Kesponsibility is a good teacher, and responsibility stimulates interest in our specialty. Our students look forward to their clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology since it brings them into useful contact with patients. Direct contact with patients and the responsibility for patient care stimulate interest in the scholarly aspects of medicine. Our students compete well with those from other schools in their internships. They have performed well in obstetrics and gynecology on the National Board Examinations. We have been able to attract the talented graduates to our residency program. This type of learning process is the key to a lifetime of scholarship in medicine. The student begins a lifelong habit of reading and study which is so necessary to him because of the rapid changes in medical science. I think also that the participation of students in patient care enables us to capture their youthful enthusiasm at a time when they are ready to assume graduated and supervised responsibility.