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(Pediatrics in Review. 1997;18:350.)
© 1997 American Academy of Pediatrics

How Firm a Foundation—The Clinician's Knowledge of Basic Medical Science

Lawrence F. Nazarian, MD Associate Editor
 As medical students, we soak up the elements of physiology eagerly as we try to understand the marvelous dynamics of human biology. Fresh from learning the basic sciences, we move into the next stage of understanding with comfort. When the long-anticipated entrance into the clinical arena becomes reality, that scientific foundation allows us to understand why patients have become ill and how we can help them.

The situation is a bit different when we have been out of school for a number of years (or decades). Basic medical science has continued to advance while we have been busy treating patients. In the process of keeping up with clinical medicine, we have been exposed naturally to much of the newer physiology, but this understanding of the foundations of what we are doing has not been acquired in the systematic and thorough fashion typical of the formal training of medical school.

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