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© 1973 Oxford University Press

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Medical Education, Epidemiology and Surgery

BENT SØRENSEN1

1 Professor of Surgery, The Department of Plastic Surgery and The Burns Unit, Kommunehospitalet, University of Copenhagen DK 1399 K, Copenhagen, Denmark

The difficulty of providing medical students with the necessary pure scientific background, while at the same time instructing them in more than thirty practical medical disciplines is emphasized.

Medical education is largely conducted at university centres, where the patients are anything but representative of those seen in the wide field of general practice.

Epidemiological studies may be instrumental in the structuring of a better medical curriculum. Two examples are given which concern the surgical curriculum in connection with carcinoma of the lung and burn injuries.

It is concluded that, in many instances, reliable epidemiological studies point where emphasis should be laid—which illnesses are relevant because of incidence, and which are relevant because they are amenable to treatment.


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