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...attract more students to family doctoring, the American College of General Practice hopes to restore the dignity of the general practitioner by making him a kind of specialist himself-a "generalist" is one term proposed. To gain accreditation from the college, a "generalist" would be required to take residency-internship training in family practice for three years, encouraged to work with outside doctors in family practice, and get added training in sociology and psychology. "Family doctoring is a more complex field than anyone gives it credit for, since it encompasses a whole range of intellectual, medical and nonmedical problems," insists...
...eight years which a student entering medical school from college now spends in schooling internship and residency could be reduced to six fewer depending upon the specialty involved...
...medical schools have come to the conclusion that the way to meet the problem is not to prolong medical education but to shorten it. Today, for virtually all physicians, education takes a minimum of nine years after high school: four in college, four in medical school, one in an internship. Specialists spend two to seven years more in an ill-paid residency...
Seidman believes that a committee system is the most efficient way to organize all the club's activities, including the dinners, speaking engagements, and internship programs. Such a system, Seidman believes, will help revitalize the YD's by providing another source of leadership participation besides the executive committee...
Awaiting his internship, Hammer felt the call to perform some international good deeds. He bought a surplus field-hospital unit, including ambulance, from the U.S. Government, took it to Russia with every intention of providing medical treatment for the peasants. But when he discovered the famine in the Volga region, he told the Soviets that there was a glut of wheat in the U.S. and thereupon made a deal. For American wheat he bartered Russian furs, hides and caviar. Recalls Hammer: "Lenin called me to the Kremlin and said: 'We don't need doctors. We need Americans...