In addition to providing a venue for the teaching of outpatient care, the center will provide the latest in computer technology-electronic textbooks and virtual patients. I'll try to be a matchmaker and provide a little honey so the bears will come out of the cave and start working together. Say you want to teach cancer from a whole patient point of view. To cut across those departmental boundaries is very difficult now. While the new foundation hopes to protect the sense of academic mission among faculty, it is also intended to bolster the morale of students.
Medical students are very vulnerable and insecure.
The formation of the foundation sends a message. They're welcomed, invited. One of the bigger challenges in clinical education today is developing effective methods for teaching students how to examine patients under enormous time constraints. A doctor today is lucky to have 20 to 30 minutes with each patient. Another challenge will be to prepare the student for the moral vicissitudes of medical practice.