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THE FILM IN MEDICAL AND NURSING EDUCATION
of such a program. Dividends in goodwill may repay such an expenditure many times over. This plan is designed along the lines proven successful in this country by the author, wherein any pre-medical or interne group, hospital staff conference, local, state or national medical society can obtain medical films provided a sufficiently large audience will be present. Inasmuch as most hospital staff groups in the average community is of a nominal size, any assemblage of twenty doctors or over may take advantage of this offer. Organizations interested in the goodwill of the medical profession in this country have sponsored both the Latin American and United States programs.
Value of Medical Films at Medical Conventions
The Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, the American Medical Association, the Minnesota State Medical Society, the Michigan State Medical Society, the Texas and New York state medical societies, as well as several others too lengthy to list, have used motion pictures as intergral parts of lecture programs at their respective conventions, and have found films to be one of the most popular methods of transmitting information to large gathering of doctors.
Of noteworthy interest is the plan followed by the Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology at their yearly convention. This organization has an ideally organized teaching schedule from which many of our other national and state medical conventions could learn a few interesting object lessons. Nearly two-thirds of their registered membership attend this meeting. Each morning, outstanding lecturers selected by invitation, present postgraduate courses to a group of men desiring specialized training. The classes are limited in size in order to give each man an opportunity to participate in discussions with the lecturer. Several score of such lecturers are listed each day, with no doctor permitted to take more than six courses. Each afternoon a motion picture session is held
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