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The Yale University School of Medicine has long attracted students who have more than top grades and test scores; they have a vision of what medicine can achieve and a commitment to exploring the edges of medical knowledge. The school rewards them with respect and support, knowing they will set themselves the toughest challenges and test themselves against the highest standards without needing conventional grades, class rankings, or rigid time constraints to spur them on. Their experience at Yale is not always cheerful–after all, they have chosen to confront the failings of the human body head on–but it is deeply satisfying and often exhilarating. They find friendship instead of competition, freedom instead of standardization. Yale is a great place to study medicine. Faculty, too, work in a uniquely collegial atmosphere that integrates clinical and biological research and stresses collaboration across traditional boundaries. The days are gone when any one aspect of a great university could successfully exist without a passionate interaction of all the parts within the whole: the basic science departments and the clinical departments; the health system, the hospital, and the medical school; the community physicians and the full-time faculty; the School of Public Health and the School of Medicine; and the School of Medicine within Yale University. Medicine at Yale is a complex enterprise that takes place twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. This book presents one week at Yale from many perspectives, beginning with a difficult childbirth on Saturday morning and ending with a student-faculty conversation on Friday afternoon. |
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