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“A steam engine in pants”
In 1920, Milton Winternitz became dean and ushered in a new era in medicine at Yale, creating the Yale System in the process. For much of his 15 years at the top, what Winternitz wanted, Winternitz got.
Milton C. Winternitz, M.D., was the catalyst behind the Yale School of Medicine’s rise to elite status in the years between the two world wars and one of the most colorful and forceful personalities to emerge from the school’s 192-year history.
Everyone loves the Yale System. So why can't they all agree?
The debate over exams this spring centered on two key questions: how should medicine be taught in the 21st century, and how should a student’s progress be measured?
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The Yale System lives! Long live the Yale System.
When nine Yale medical students wrote to alumni last winter about changes in the curriculum, they triggered a flood of reminiscences about the experience of becoming a doctor at Yale.
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A leather-bound diary, a young Harvey Cushing
During his weeklong trip to the World’s 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Harvey W. Cushing, M.D., took in a...
Yale Medicine is the Alumni Bulletin of the Yale University School of Medicine. Read More...
