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Clinicians, on with more pictures, fascinating reading and the other hand expect the student to know another colour for those of you who took all of the necessary surface anatomy, drug offence at the last issue's cover. doses and applications of physiology which the student has not sorted out when he This issue will concern itself to a large reaches third year. Possibly less 'academic extent with education, and it would be freedom' and greater planning by the faculty wonderful to be able to distill for you on as a whole as to what shall be taught is this page the essence of the great thoughts the answer. cerebrated by the many minds who have spoken and written to great length on this I can't agree with the desire for abolition problem, and to have a concrete answer of exams. Until someone can prove which will provide students, teachers, conclusively that one method of evaluation administrators and the profession as a whole is better than another, my opinion will stand with minimal suffering , enough time and that I have never seen anyone who understood personnel, perfectly organized schedules and a subject fail because of an exam, nor have maximally trained physicians so as to I seen someone in medicine fail who satisfy everyone. But I can't.