Residency Training in Internal Medicine, For What; Subspecialty Boards, What For?
Authors: WILLIAM W. ENGSTROM
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1969)

Perspective1 March 1969Residency Training in Internal Medicine, For What; Subspecialty Boards, What For?WILLIAM W. ENGSTROM, M.D., F.A.C.P.WILLIAM W. ENGSTROM, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-70-3-621 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptMedicine in America may be likened to a child of promise going astray. Serious concerns for medicine derive from love of medicine and those in it.The legs of the tripod of patient-care, teaching, and research are being variously expanded, shrunken, distorted, disconnected, and examined, often by those inexperienced in the field of medical practice. Two of the three legs of the tripod (patient-care and teaching) have been seriously damaged by past official positions taken by organized medicine as represented by the American Medical Association. In the 1930's the AMA actively discouraged the hospital-based group practice of medicine, and it...References1. LEAF A: Government, medical research and education. Science 159: 604, 1968. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. FUNKENSTEIN DH: Our obsolete residencies. Arch. Intern. Med. (Chicago) 122: 279, 1968. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. : The Graduate Education of Physicians, American Medical Association, Chicago, 1966, p. 65. Google Scholar4. PLATT L: Medical science: master or servant. Brit. Med. J. 4: 439, 1967. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. MEANS JH: The Association of American Physicians: Its First Seventy-Five Years, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, p. 122. Google Scholar6. Comments. JAMA 115: 730, 1940. Google Scholar7. PEABODY FW: Care of the patient. JAMA 88: 877, 1927. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. HALE T: Problems of supply and demand in the education of nurses. New Eng. J. Med. 275: 1044, 1966. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar9. B. M: A new age (editorial). Arch. Intern. Med. (Chicago) 121: 101, 1968. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar10. : Medical Care for the American People, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1932, p. 109. Google Scholar11. HARDY CT: Group practice by medical school faculty. J. Med. Educ. 43: 907, 1968. MedlineGoogle Scholar12. ENGSTROM WW: Are internists functioning as family physicians? (editorial). Ann. Intern. Med. 66: 613, 1967. LinkGoogle Scholar13. ACE G: Saturday Review, July 27 1968, p. 4. Google Scholar14. WILLARD WR (chairman): Meeting the Challenge of Family Practice. The report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Education for Family Practice of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association, 1966. Google Scholar15. BELOFFWILLET JSM: Yale studies in family health care. JAMA 205: 73, 1968. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. MARSTON RQ: To meet the nations health needs. New Eng. J. Med. 279: 520, 1968. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Milwaukee, WisconsinFrom the Department of Medicine, Marquette School of Medicine; and the Milwaukee County Hospital; Milwaukee, Wis.Based in part on a paper presented April 2, 1968, at the Forty-Ninth Annual Session of the American College of Physicians, held in association with the Royal College of Physicians of London, in Boston, Mass.Requests for reprints should be addressed to William W. Engstrom, M.D., Milwaukee County Hospital, 8700 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. 53226 PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySubspecialization in Internal Medicine: A historical review, an analysis, and proposals for changeInternists, Primary Care, and SubspecializationGERALD E. SINCLAIR, M.D.What One Internist Does in His Practice Implications for the Internist's Disputed Role and EducationJOHN F. BURNUM, M.D., F.A.C.P.Further Changes in the Requirements and Procedures of the American Board of Internal MedicineRICHARD V. EBERT, M.D.Rheumatology as a subspecialty a comment on its present status and future paths 1 March 1969Volume 70, Issue 3Page: 621-633KeywordsHospital medicineResidencySub-specialty care Issue Published: 1 March 1969 PDF downloadLoading ...