Primary care in the academic medical centers

Comprehensive Care Revisited

“…d T o d a y ?The Association of American Medical Colleges commissioned a survey(Schroeder et al, 1974) of United States medical schools in 1973 to determine what is being done to provide for students effec tive teaching in primary care. If this is accepted as a term similar to comprehensive care, the results of the AAM C survey when com bined with the response to the authors' letter of inquiry should provide an idea of what principles are being applied today.The AAMC survey indicated that although 69 percent of schools require a defined ambulatory care clerkship, the majority of experiences are less than two months in duration.…”

Bridging the gaps between departments of community and family medicine: The Calgary experience

“…Half of the institutions had developed programs for training graduates in family practice, with another 25% planning to do so. 7 There has been a growing tendency to wed the elements of these two traditional approaches, curative medicine and public health, into a third approach, s McDermott and others have proposed the use of a "managerial type" of physician in addition to clinical physicians. McDermott stated that "if we in medicine are successful in devising wholly new ways of applying our science and technology for man's benefits without losing what we have gained for the individual-if we are successful in devising teaching programs, research, and other action, based on a concept of the statistically expressed good-we will find our medical students will be ready for it. '…”