Medical students are demoralised by some teachers

doi:10.1136/bmj.324.7330.173

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Allan D Struthers, professor of cardiovascular medicine and therapeutics

Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, Tayside DD1 9SY

EDITOR—I wish to draw attention to what I think is a serious problem in medical education. Since I became a consultant in 1985, some senior staff have been complaining that medical students nowadays do not know as much as they used to. This complaint has been given greater impetus by the invention of “new” medical curricula, which means that teachers now believe that they have an identifiable reason why today's medical students are not as good as they used to be. …