Word: internship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...open to negotiation, the town would advance a medical student $2,000 a year at 3% interest for four years, provide and equip an office and guarantee a reasonable income once a practice is established. In turn, the student would repay the loan within three years of completing internship and military service, and would pledge to serve in the town as a general practitioner for at least a year. If the arrangement worked well, the students believe, the young doctors would stay for much longer...
...mother of two and wife of a physician, I read your article about women in medicine [Jan. 11] with great interest. Being 11½ years out of an internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where I not uncommonly worked 128 hours a week-and at least 90 hours-with no days off, I have some insight into the problem. Most women are not only willing to work as hard as men but often do more than their share to "prove" their sincerity. The part-time training programs will help alleviate some of the obstacles. This is certainly a more...
Hospitals, which are responsible for internship and residency programs, are equally unyielding with married women. Most require that they put in the same 70-hour weeks as male trainees; others refuse to allow them to escape weekend work or 36-hour duty stints, which cause extreme separation of mother from child. Nor are most professional associations any less demanding. The American Board of Pediatrics and the Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology have refused to bend their requirements of full-time residency for certification as a specialist...
Jeffrey MacDonald had been schooled to believe that the system treats deserving individuals justly. He was an all-American achiever who had always found his merit rewarded. An honors student at Princeton, he married his high school sweetheart, went on to Northwestern University Medical School and an internship at New York's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. When MacDonald joined the Army as a doctor, he went after and earned a Green Beret...
...entirely different routes. Inspired by the passionate medical interests of his younger brother Francis, now a plastic surgeon in Kansas City, Kans., Masters also chose to study medicine. During his junior year at the University of Rochester's medical school, he fixed on his lifelong professional goal. An internship in obstetrics and gynecology in St. Louis reinforced his conviction that sex was the last important biological function that was still largely unexplored. "I got no training in sexual functioning," he says. "Neither did any doctor who went to school. When patients came and began to question me as the 'authority...