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Emergency Care Training in the Emergency Ward

Stephen E. Goldfinger, MD; Daniel D. Federman, MD

JAMA. 1968;206(13):2883-2884.

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The traditional approach to postgraduate medical education for community physicians has been lecture-oriented—planned without consulting the physicians as to their needs, and executed in front of screens and blackboards rather than patients. This communication describes a rather different venture designed to fulfill the specific needs outlined by a group of three general practitioners, each of them out of medical school for at least 20 years. They had retired from their individual practices in order to start as the core of a group which they hoped would reach five in number and which would be responsible for the full-time coverage of the emergency ward of a nearby community hospital of 343 beds. These physicians desired a course that would provide guidance and experience in modern emergencyward techniques—and they explicitly stated that they would be happy to learn and work alongside young interns and residents. This report of the program that was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the departments of medicine and continuing education, Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to 25 Shattuck St. Boston 02115 (Dr. Goldfinger).

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