The academic pediatrician and the practicing pediatrician. An educational team
R. J. McKay Jr
Pediatric education in the contemporary United States requires the
cooperation of an educational team of both academic and practicing
pediatricians. The latter have been handicapped in their appropriate
function as teachers and role models by exposure to students in the wards
and clinics of teaching hospitals, the natural habitats of academic
pediatricians. Evidence is offered to indicate that practicing
pediatricians are significantly more effective as teachers and role models
when medical students are exposed to them in their own offices.
