Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Committee on Admissions is conscious of the fact that many men who apply to a medical school are interest primarily in the money, or have been brow-beaten into the profession by socially-conscious parents.
While they must be consciously on the watch for applicants not interested in medicine per se, members of the committee admit that many a brow-beaten or financially-minded youth has, in four years, developed a fanatic devotion to the profession. At the same time, they state from experience that...
While the men take their courses and careers seriously, ther is a certain amount of joking connected with the medical profession which grows more perverted with each succeeding year of study. In anatomy classes the cadavers--one to each four men--are sometimes tagged with pet names and often are...
The A.M.A., however, opposed the whole bill as "the first step toward the nationalization of the medical profession." In Washington the A.M.A.'s voice was the loudest. The bill died in the House.
In the present crisis, as throughout the history of the profession in America, other institutions look to Harvard Medical for leadership. The School has stood first in the ranks of medical progress for more than a century and a half.