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...prescription: a new medical specialty composed of "primary physicians"-so called because they would have first and continuing contact with the patient. Their training, said Dr. Millis, who is a physicist, not a physician, would involve abolition of the present system that calls for medical graduates to serve an internship of a year or more before going into practice. Future primary physicians, like candidates for all other medical specialties, would have to go into a three-year residency program immediately after graduation...
...anticipated that most students will attain the M.D. degree having concentrated in clinical areas but it will also be possible to specialize in clinical areas such as medical genetics, medical anthropology, administrative medicine and so forth. It is considered that one elective for the fourth year might be an internship in an approved teaching hospital for selected students...
While medical education as conducted by the medical schools has many weaknesses, it is at least the province of medical faculties and more and more it is being subjected to critical and often painful re-evaluation. The other half of medical education which takes place during internship, residency and fellowship is not the legal responsibility of the medical school or University and is more akin to the old apprenticeship system of education than the University. To be sure, University faculties are involved in University-affiliated hospitals, but the "curriculum" is the creature of the specialty boards, accreditation bodies...
Medical education is a total process and the artificial division between medical school and internship and residency makes little sense. There must be the opportunity to plan in a rational way the total education of the physician...
...father died when he was eleven, and he eventually had to quit high school to work the family's sharecropper farm. At 18, he hitched a ride on a cottonseed truck and landed a job singing on a radio station in Jackson, Tenn. After three years of internship with Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys ("I sold song books and swept out the auditoriums"), he got married and struck out on his own. At first the going was tough: "I used to kid my wife that she married me for my money. Actually, she made more than...