• CMAJ · Mar 1997

    The yellow brick road of medical education.

    • J A Nisker.
    • University of Western Ontario.
    • CMAJ. 1997 Mar 1;156(5):689-91.

    AbstractFrom the time the medical school's acceptance letter is opened, students eagerly set off on the yellow brick road in pursuit of the attributes of the good physician: intelligence, compassion and courage. The students already possess these traits, just as the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion did before they set out for Oz, but they may dissolve in education systems that still decree that the initiation to medicine involve tonnes of tutored words and consuming call schedules.

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