University, medical school, and community.

University of Michigan Medical School.

The Medical School and the University

Honor for Dr. Vernon Lippard is richly merited but perhaps poorly served by an essay on relationships between medical education and universities. Doctor Lippard could do the job so much better himself. In fact, more than a decade ago he did it with his presidential address before the Association of American Medical Colleges.' Doctor Lippard's thesis, presented under the title, "The Medical Scho...

The medical school and the community.

The "revolution" initiated by Flexner established a firm foundation for the physical and biological sciences in medical education and introduced the concepts of the scientific method into medical practice.' As a result, medicine's scientific achievements are phenomenal; its social accomplishments are more modest. This "revolution" is over, and the next is upon us, heralded, if not initiated, by...

The pipeline of physiology courses in community colleges: to university, medical school, and beyond.

Community colleges are significant in the landscape of undergraduate STEM (science technology, engineering, and mathematics) education (9), including biology, premedical, and other preprofessional education. Thirty percent of first-year medical school students in 2012 attended a community college. Students attend at different times in high school, their first 2 yr of college, and postbaccalaure...

Tinnitus program at Brasília University Medical School.

Over the last 6 months, all patients seen at the otologic clinic of Brasília University Medical School answered a questionnaire designed to identify and describe the symptom of tinnitus. A total of 500 patients reported and described this symptom. They underwent physical examination, laboratory tests and audiological evaluation. In their order of frequency, presbycusis, chronic otitis media, ot...