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A Melnick

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PubMed1992

Characteristics of faculty for a successful basic sciences program.

The author defines characteristics of an ideal faculty for a successful basic science program including strong grounding in the specific discipline, ability to teach with clinical relevance, dedication to teaching above all other considerations, and motivation to integrate optometric science. He illustrates an approach to this ideal as developed at the Southeastern University of the Health Sciences by integrating the basic science faculty for three separate health profession schools. Further, the author describes the profitable examples which have come about through this program.

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PubMed1990

Osteopathic medicine and primary care practice: plan or serendipity?

General practitioners predominate in osteopathic medicine (57% of all D.O.s), as compared with allopathic medicine. A number of possible reasons are put forth: the student selection process (cloning by admission committee general practitioners); special features of osteopathic education (more required courses, primary care courses, and rotations); training in osteopathic hospitals (mainly community institutions); a required rotating internship; and predominant departments of general practice in osteopathic hospitals and colleges (providing more high-quality general practitioner role models). The author suggests consideration of personality differences, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, as a possible causative factor in differences between the allopathic and osteopathic segments of medicine.

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