Lamar Soutter Exhibit - His Post-War Years

At Boston University School of Medicine

Source: Boston University Archives

In 1952 Dr. Soutter became an associate professor in the surgery department of the Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM). There he developed innovative ideas about medical education and how it is structured. He saw a need for medical education to broaden itself to include much more than just chemistry and science. He realized that the delivery of health care had to change and the education of physicians must follow suit. The number of generalist physicians was declining, and Dr. Soutter sought to address this problem by training more generalists who would work along with the specialists. At BUSM his career as a medical educator progressed from his appointment as Associate Dean in 1955, to Acting Dean in 1959, and then to Dean in 1960.

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Boston University School of Medicine

Sources used for this page:

Soutter, Lamar. Curriculum Vitae, c. 1979.
Soutter, Lamar. "The Decline of General Practice." BMQ: The Boston Medical Quarterly, September 1962, 120.