The Clinical Teacher and the Medical Curriculum

In a moment of self-communing, Leonardo wrote in his notebook: “The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance.” This might well be taken as a motto to hang in our several faculty rooms, for it is one thing to sit and theorize about teaching, and quite another to find people capable of carrying out our altogether admirable ideas—or to practic e them ourselves. This probably has been so from the beginning—ever since pupils were first assembled in schools; and through the centuries what should be done under the circumstances has puzzled many minds.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research