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Edward Lewis Turner
Secretary, Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, American Medical Association, Chicago, 1953–59. Professor of Medicine; Dean, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, 1945–53.
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Harold Scarborough
Professor of Medicine; Provost, College of Medical Sciences, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria, 1979–84. Coauthor of Textbook of Physiology and Biochemistry.
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medical education, course of study directed toward imparting to persons seeking to become physicians the knowledge and skills required for the prevention and treatment of disease. It also develops the methods and objectives appropriate to the study of the still unknown factors that produce disease or favour well-being. Among the goals of medical education is the production of physicians sensitive to the health needs of their country, capable of ministering to those needs, and aware of the necessity of continuing their own education. It therefore follows that the plan of education, the medical curriculum, should not be the same in ...(100 of 3278 words)

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