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Distinctions are made between faculty who are physician scientists and clinician educators in women’s health care. As departments expand due to increasing clinical and educational needs, the clinician educator will play a more central role. This chapter focuses on the expanding value and need for clinician educators.
The American medical school is now well along in the second century of its history. It began, and for many years continued to exist, as a supplement to the apprenticeship system still in vogue during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The likely youth of that period, destined to a medical career, was at an early age indentured to some reputable practitioner, to whom his service was successively menial, pharmaceutical and professional: he ran his master’s errands, washed the bottles, mixed the drugs, spread the plasters, and finally, as the stipulated term drew towards its close, actually took part in the daily practice of his preceptor…
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Cain, J.M., Bowling, K.C. (2011). Clinician Educators: How Can We Meet the Expanding Need?. In: Rayburn, W., Schulkin, J. (eds) Changing Landscape of Academic Women's Health Care in the United States. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0931-7_3
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