When the College of Medicine was established at Alfaisal University the founding faculty were in agreement with Robert Maynard Hutchins, educational philosopher who was Dean of the Yale Law School and Chancellor of the University of Chicago who wrote \u201cThe object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.\u201d<\/p>\n
Master Textbook Error Detector Hussam Mohammed Izzat Abou Al-Shar, a second year medical student has again demonstrated the capacity for self-learning we nurture in our students.\u00a0 He has found more multiple errors in a number of widely-used textbooks including Drake\u2019s \u201cGrays Anatomy\u201d, Snell\u2019s \u201cClinical Neuroanatomy\u201d, Abbas, Lichtman and Pober\u2019s \u201cCellular and Molecular Immunology\u201d and Hall and Guyton\u2019s \u201cMedical Physiology\u201d.\u00a0 All the authors were appreciative of his notification and errors will be corrected.\u00a0 As an Example, Dr. John E. Hall, current author of the textbook \u201cMedical Physiology\u201d wrote: \u201cThank you for your kind remarks and for taking time to provide feedback on errors in the Textbook of Medical Physiology.\u00a0 You are correct on all three points. I will ask to publisher to make corrections in the next printing of the book.\u00a0 I greatly appreciate your suggestions which will help me to improve the book and make it as accurate as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Socrates stated: \u201cI cannot teach anyone anything, I can only make them think\u201d.\u00a0 Hussam is an excellent example of how our students are thinking rather than rote learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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