Talk:Medical education in the United States

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[edit] New article and request for more help

Currently information regarding medical education and training is scattered amongst a number of articles. This information is at best duplicated, but a better description would be "fractured". Furthermore, medical ed/training varies considerably across the world, however the info in the various articles is often U.S.-specific. In an attempt to consolidate information regarding medical education and training, I have begun combining information regarding med ed/training into country-specific overview articles.

Today I have combined the information in the U.S. section of this article with the information in the U.S. section of Medical school into Medical education in the United States. At present it essentially covers the typical "training trajectory" as presented in those articles. Hopefully some people more expert in this area can recheck the information. Eventually it would be good if someone could expand the article with information on history (Flexner Report, etc), recent developments, controversies, etc.

Cheers, --Daveb 09:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Errors in Names of Schools

I have noticed and corrected quite a number of errors in the sections for names of schools. Several states are incorrectly formatted (Iowa was part of Indiana and Pennsylvania was part of Oregon) and some school names are not correctly formatted as per the formatting given on the schools website or even on other wikipedia articles. I've done some work today to edit this but if anyone has a chance and knowledge of medical schools in the US, help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Formator 16:53, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing any formatting problems. The list of the names of schools was copied and pasted directly from the official list of colleges on the AAMC's (Association of American Medical Colleges) website, so errors should be pretty limited (and kind of surprising!). Donaldal 07:43, 19 March 2006 (UTC)