Algernon Brashear Jackson, M.D.: A Pioneer for Community and Minority Advocacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 84 (6) ◽  
pp. 761-762
Author(s):  
Megan E. Lundy ◽  
Scott W. Cowan ◽  
Charles J. Yeo ◽  
Melissa Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Surgical Training ◽  
Black Male ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Jefferson Medical College ◽  
Medical College ◽  
The Way

A historical vignette regarding Dr. Algernon Brashear Jackson, the first Black male graduate from Jefferson Medical College. It details his early life, medical school years, surgical training, and contributions to his local community and beyond as he paved the way for future doctors of color.

scholarly journals Does conventional early life academic excellence predict later life scientific discovery? An assessment of the lives of great medical innovators

QJM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
D J A Jenkins ◽  
V H Jayalath ◽  
V L Choo ◽  
E Viguiliouk ◽  
C W C Kendall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
Later Life ◽  
School Entry ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Medical College ◽  
School Entrance

Summary Background Perhaps, as never before, we need innovators. With our growing population numbers, and with increasing pressures on our education systems, are we in danger of becoming more rigid and formulaic and increasingly inhibiting innovation? When young can we predict who will become the great innovators? For example, in medicine, who will change clinical practice? Aims We therefore determined to assess whether the current academic excellence approach to medical school entrance would have captured previous great innovators in medicine, assuming that they should all have well fulfilled current entrance requirements. Methods The authors assembled a list of 100 great medical innovators which was then approved, rejected or added to by a jury of 12 MD fellows of the Royal Society of Canada. Two reviewers, who had taken both the past and present Medical College Admission Test as part of North American medical school entrance requirements, independently assessed each innovator’s early life educational history in order to predict the innovator’s likely success at medical school entry, assuming excellence in all entrance requirements. Results Thirty-one percent of the great medical innovators possessed no medical degree and 24% would likely be denied entry to medical school by today’s standards (e.g. had a history of poor performance, failure, dropout or expulsion) with only 24% being guaranteed entry. Even if excellence in only one topic was required, the figure would only rise to 41% certain of medical school entry. Conclusion These data show that today’s medical school entry standards would have barred many great innovators and raise questions about whether we are losing medical innovators as a consequence. Our findings have important implications for promoting flexibility and innovation for medical education, and for promoting an environment for innovation in general.

scholarly journals Should Half of All Medical School Graduates Enter Primary Care? Perceptions of Faculty Members at Jefferson Medical College

1995 ◽  
Vol 70 (12) ◽  
pp. 1125-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Gottlieb ◽  
Sylvia K. Fields ◽  
Mohammadreza Hojat ◽  
J. Jon Veloski
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Jefferson Medical College ◽  
Medical College

Introduction

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 679-680
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Women Physicians ◽  
Jefferson Medical College ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Threefold Increase ◽  
Poetic Vision

The renowned gynecologist, Dr Charles Meigs, addressed his all-male gynecology class at the Jefferson Medical College in 1847 on the "Distinctive Characteristics of the Female." He stated, in part: The great administrative faculties are not hers. She plans no sublime campaign, leads no armies to battle, nor fleets to victory. The Forum is no theatre for her silver voice. . . . She discerns not the courses of the planets. . . . She composes no Iliad, no Aeneid. The strength of Milton's poetic vision was far beyond her fine and delicate perceptions. . . . Do you think that a Woman . . . could have developed, in the tender soil of her intellect, the strong idea of a Hamlet, or a MacBeth? Such is not woman's province, nature, power, or mission. She reigns in the heart; her seat and throne are by the hearthstone. The household altar is her place of worship and service. . . . She has a head almost too small for intellect and just big enough for love.1 In that same year, Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman admitted to a US medical school. The number of women physicians has increased significantly since then and some of these women who have made extraordinary contributions, against odds, deserve special recognition. In the last decade there has been an almost threefold increase in women entering medicine. In 1959-1960, 6.9% of the medical school applicants, 6% of the entering class, and 5.7% of the graduates were women. In 1980-1981, 29.5% of the applicants, 28.9% of the entering class, and 24.5% of the graduates were women.

Gender Comparisons Prior to, during, and after Medical School Using Two Decades of Longitudinal Data at Jefferson Medical College

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammadreza Hojat ◽  
Mary R. Robeson ◽  
J. Jon Veloski ◽  
Robert S. Blacklow ◽  
Gang Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Data ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Jefferson Medical College ◽  
Gender Comparisons ◽  
Medical College

scholarly journals DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL IN THE USA: ESTABLISHMENT, INNOVATORS, AND INNOVATIONS (THE LATE 18TH – 19TH CENTURY)

2020 ◽  
pp. 423-433
Author(s):  
Alla Kulichenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Jefferson Medical College ◽  
Dartmouth Medical School ◽  
Medical College ◽  
American Medicine ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The 19Th Century

The article reveals the peculiarities of the Dartmouth Medical School establishment. Moreover, the author appeals to American outstanding innovators and innovations from the late 18th century to the 19th century. Note that N. Smith was an innovator-organizer of American medical schools (Dartmouth Medical School, Yale School of Medicine, Bowdoin Medical School, and Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia). Besides, N. Smith’s methods of typhus treating and certain surgical operations, as ovariotomy, staphyloraphy, were innovative in American medicine. Also, R. Mussey, D. Crosby, E. Peasley, C. Frost provided innovative activity at Dartmouth Medical School during the 19th century. Among the crucial innovations, there were new departments, implementation of new teaching methods within the educational process, use of various European practices and devices, including the X-ray apparatus, etc.

Integration of Medical Informatics with Other Courses in the Medical Curriculum

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (04) ◽  
pp. 243-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Tumstra
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
New Curriculum ◽  
The Way

Abstract:The introduction of a new structure in the Medical Curriculum at the Leiden University Medical School has facilitated the integration of medical informatics subjects with other subjects. The paper describes the holistic nature of the new curriculum, the way Medical Informatics is interwoven with other subjects and the problems which have been encountered.

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