Militaryeducation, as we understand the term today, had little to no significant meaning in eighteenth-century America. The individual colonies and, after the Revolutionary War, the newly formed republic had no established system to educate soldiers or officers. Indeed, no infrastructure even existed to begin such a process. Compared to the formalized education military officers received in Europe, American officers learned their profession in several unconventional ways: service with a foreign military, militia training, self-education, or a combination of all three. Eventually, a more uniform system for educating officers emerged after Congress created the Continental Army, and General George Washington assumed command.
Most prominent American military figures of the revolutionary era had an ad-hoc military education. General Henry Knox owned a bookstore and kept a large inventory of military literature. Using these works, he mastered artillery and engineering, which helped supplement his hands-on experience with a local artillery unit.1 General Nathaniel Greene, who was born a Quaker, received very little formal education but was an avid reader of military works.2 By contrast, General Horatio Gates, the hero of Saratoga, had retired after a successful career in the British army. When Gates sided with the colonies, General Washington appointed him as an adjunct general because of his experience and the lack of professional soldiers available.3
George Washington credited holding command early in his career and his time as a surveyor with his later ability to understand the terrain during military engagements and move his troops accordingly.5 The British army famously denied Washington a commission, despite his service during the French and Indian War, which would have given him access to a more formalized military education. Instead, Washington acquired his education by reading and via his experience as a militia commander on the frontier.
Washington possessed a large personal library, which he relied on extensively to supplement his hands-on training. His library included many technical military works, as well as others that indirectly related to military subjects. Among this collection was A Treatise of Military Discipline, by Humphrey Bland, which British officers viewed as the preeminent military handbook of the eighteenth century.6
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Over the last two decades, it has become evident that this traditional system of medical education has failed to incorporate scientific developments in educational theory and practice that would lead to better outcomes [2]. In medical education that means selecting individuals who are suited to the modern practice of medicine, assuring that they are adequately prepared for a medical education, requiring the demonstration of competence at each stage of education and insisting that doctors take the necessary steps to maintain and improve their competence, incorporate new knowledge, and develop new skills throughout their careers.
Future doctors will be educated very differently. Organized medicine in the United States is a complex and unwieldy conglomeration of organizations with responsibilities for varying aspects of medical education. These organizations (AAMC, LCME, ACGME, ABMS), largely through the volunteer efforts of our colleagues, have begun a reform movement in medical education that rivals and may surpass the efforts in the last century.
In 1999 the ACGME and ABMS expanded the fields of competence required for physicians to include Professionalism, Systems Based Practice, Problem Based Learning and Improvement, and Interpersonal Communication Skills in addition to Medical Knowledge and Patient Care [3]. These competencies have been incorporated into the evaluative processes for medical students, residents and practicing physicians. They were designed to be measures of the outcomes of various educational efforts in order to show that educational processes actually produced the intended result. In 2008, the ACGME began the development of the Milestones Project, the next step in measuring residency training outcomes [4]. The purpose of the Milestones is to describe the specialty specific resident competencies that should be attained during training. These Milestones are organized as developmental pathways with Level 1 representing skills and attributes expected of a beginning resident, the residency ready medical school graduate described above [5]. Levels 2 and 3 are intermediate stages of accomplishment. Level 4 describes the expected competencies of a graduating resident. Level 5 delineates advanced goals that some but not all residents will accomplish. The four levels do not correlate directly to the year of training as the skills and competencies do not develop at the same pace in all residents and are not taught at the same time in each residency program.
Taken together, these developments are a true revolution in the way physicians are and continue to be educated. Medical Education rather than being cut into discrete pieces is conceptualized as a lifelong learning process with feedback mechanisms to ensure that physicians practice at a uniformly excellent level. Much remains to be done but there is no doubt that medical education is changing and changing rapidly, in my view, much for the better.
Revisionism comes from a masked change in the fundamental theory, methods and perspectives of the revolutionary workers' movement. It is a departure from scientific socialism in theory and in practice which derails the class struggle from a correct and consistent coarse. It is undertaken under pressure from alien social ideas, interests and forces. In its first stages, revisionism does not come forward in an open and forthright challenge to the Marxist position, but proceeds by stealth. It vies to insinuate its new ideas into the structure of the established ones, inserting them as levers in order to undermine and eventually overthrow the established positions. It doles out its modifications bit by bit, until it becomes bold enough to counterpose its revisions squarely to the old line.
This procedure often may appear like deliberate deceit; it is imposed upon the revisionists, however, by circumstances beyond their control. On the one hand, this procedure reflects the objective trend of revisionist thinking, which deviates from Marxism a step or so at a time -- often without admitting that fact to itself, or to speak of others. On the other hand, the revisionists have to reckon at every stage with the solidly-rooted traditions of the revolutionary movement, which stand like a giant barrier athwart its path; and they must therefore resort to protective colouration. The favourite pretext is to claim that they are doing nothing but bringing Marxism up to date, modernizing it, bringing it abreast of new events unforeseen by anyone, especially the founders and great leaders of the movement. For example, in 1939-40, Shachtman counterposed to Trotsky's vigorous defence of Marxism, what he called the 'concreteness of living events.' And that is precisely how the Cochranites have been proceeding.
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