got, our students in most ways were more advanced than their counterparts. Well,
some had not had as much experience with tertiary care things, but it only took
about three months to catch up with that in their residency program. It’s a trade-off.
Do you want them to come out of medical school with a lot of tertiary care experience
and knowledge? Or do you want them to be good general physicians with
broad-based knowledge?” We wanted the latter.
Sadly, when the LCME encountered the distributed model that we proposed for
FSU, it concluded that the model hadn’t been tested. In fact, it had been used successfully
for many years by Monash. Twenty years later, it’s clear that our model has
succeeded. •
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