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JAMA. 1998;279:248.

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At the American Medical Association's Interim Meeting in December, the Resident Physicians Section (RPS) considered 10 resolutions and 9 reports dealing with graduate medical education, public health issues, and RPS procedures. The RPS adopted the following resolutions and reports pertaining to graduate medical education. The remaining adopted resolutions and reports will be published in next week's Resident Forum.

National Committee to Evaluate Medical School Closings called for the AMA to address the concern about the possible oversupply of physicians by working with appropriate agencies to develop recommendations regarding the number of graduates of US medical schools. The resolution acknowledged that most of the recommendations regarding the physician workforce have focused on the number of resident physicians and not on the number of students in medical schools.

Clinical Supervision of Resident Physicians by Nonphysicians called for the AMA to amend current policy to include the following language regarding the supervision of . . . [Full Text of this Article]