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Richard B. Gunderman

Achieving Excellence in Medical Education Second Edition

Author Richard B. Gunderman, MD, PhD Indiana University Indianapolis, IN USA

ISBN 978-0-85729-306-0 2nd edition e-ISBN 978-0-85729-307-7 2nd edition ISBN 978-1-84628-296-6 1st edition (HB) ISBN 978-1-84628-813-5 1st edition (PB) e-ISBN 978-1-84628-317-5 1st edition DOI 10.1007/978-0-85729-307-7 Springer London Dordrecht Heidelberg New York A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925992 © Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011 First published 2006 Whilst we have made considerable efforts to contact all holders of copyright material contained in this book, we may have failed to locate some of them. Should holders wish to contact the Publisher, we will be happy to come to some arrangement with them. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms of licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside those terms should be sent to the publishers. The use of registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Product liability: The publisher can give no guarantee for information about drug dosage and application thereof contained in this book. In every individual case the respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other pharmaceutical literature. Cover design: eStudioCalamar Figueres/Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

A celebrated historian, a man who had won many awards for his writing, was invited to give an address at a great American university. In conjunction with his visit, the university’s former president, a highly distinguished scholar and leader in his own right, invited him to lunch. As the two were dining, the former president asked the historian whether he had majored in history in college. “No,” the historian replied, “I was an English major. In fact, I did not take a single history course until my very last semester.” “That must have been quite a course,” the former president replied. The historian paused, looking at the trees outside the windows, “Actually, I do not remember much about it. I cannot even tell you the name of the instructor. He was not a faculty member, but a graduate student.” “So the course didn’t make much of an impression on you?” prompted the former president. “Actually, I was very inspired by something the instructor said on the first day of class,” the historian replied. “He told us, ‘We are going to be stu