…as institutions of higher learning, today’s medical schools are strangely steeped in tradition.
From wearing white coats to “scutting out” third-years, medical students in the post-Flexner world still spend a large part of their day engaged in ritualized practices, solely because that’s what their mentors learned.
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Source: medscape.com