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Harvard Psychiatrist Daniel Funkenstein, who has studied the goals and attitudes of 2,000 medical students since 1958, has plotted the change statistically. When Funkenstein began his inquiries, practically none of the students with whom he talked planned careers in "community health." By 1969, however, 30% expressed an interest in practicing this type of medicine...
...hire all those interested in this type of medicine. Nor have federal funds been forthcoming to support private group practice. Some idealistic doctors emerge from medical schools with heavy debts and cannot afford to take jobs that offer only modest incomes. As a result, says Harvard's Funkenstein, the trend toward community medicine has already peaked for the time being. Many young doctors, unable to break out of the system, have settled into conformity...
Five years ago the call was for doctors with an interest in scientific research, according to Dr. Daniel H. Funkenstein, an expert in medical trends and a psychiatrist at the Harvard Medical School...
According to Funkenstein, "The reinforcement of students by their peers, society, the government and foundations has shifted away from science to the work in the community. The delivery of health care has become the 'in thing...
...Funkenstein, who is director of the Program for Research in Medical Education in the Department of Psychology of the Harvard Medical School, has been studying medical education since...