Graduate Medical Education 1976? Will Internal Medicine Meet the Challenge?
Authors: PHILIP R. LEE
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1976)

Editorials1 August 1976Graduate Medical Education 1976? Will Internal Medicine Meet the Challenge?PHILIP R. LEE, M.D.PHILIP R. LEE, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-85-2-250 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMedicine is in trouble. Patients are not sure that a concerned and competent physician will be available when they get sick. Politicians struggle with the dual, and often perceived as incompatible, needs to control rapidly rising costs and improve access to care of good quality. Ethicists raise questions about equity and about the value-laden assumptions upon which medical and health policy decisions are based. Practicing physicians decry rising malpractice premiums and increasing government involvement in defining the scope of medical practice. Medical educators worry about how to respond to growing public demands to combine education in scientific biology with humanism;...References1. STEVENS R: American Medicine and the Public Interest. New Haven Yale University Press, 1972, pp. 413-414 Google Scholar2. : Physician Manpower and Distribution: The Primary Care Physician. Chicago, Coordinating Council on Medical Education, 1975, p. 6 Google Scholar3. GRAETTINGER J: Graduate Medical Education Viewed from the National Intern and Resident Matching Program. Chicago, Rush Presbyterian—St. Luke's Medical Center, 1976, p. 15 Google Scholar4. NESBITT T: Statement of the American Medical Association Re: Health Manpower Legislation, S. 989, S. 991, S. 996, S. 1357, H.R. 5546, delivered before the Subcommittee on Health, Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, U.S. Senate. Chicago, American Medical Association, 1975, pp. 21-32 Google Scholar5. : The Supply of Health Manpower: 1970 Profiles and Projections to 1990. Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, DHEW Publication No. (HRA) 75-38, p. 67 Google Scholar6. SCHROEDERWERNERPIEMME SST: Primary Care in the Academic Health Centers: A Report of a Survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Washington, D.C., Association of American Medical Colleges, 1974, p. 11 Google Scholar7. BENSON J: Position on Primary Care: Training and Certifying the Primary Care Physician. Evanston, Executive Committee, American Board of Internal Medicine, 1974, p. 5 Google Scholar8. PETERSDORF R: Internal medicine 1976: consequences of subspecialization and technology. Ann Intern Med 84:92-94, 1976 LinkGoogle Scholar9. YOUNG L: The broadly based internist as the backbone of medical practice, in Controversy in Internal Medicine, edited by INGELFINGER FJ, EBERT RV, FINLAND M, et al. Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1974, pp. 41-63 Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: PHILIP R. LEE, M.D.Affiliations: School of Medicine University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byA case history of training outside the hospital and its futureA case for the view that there are too few gastroenterologists 1 August 1976Volume 85, Issue 2Page: 250-253KeywordsGraduate medical educationHealth care qualityMedical education ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 August 1976 PDF downloadLoading ...