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William J. Erdman II, MD

JAMA. 1969;207(1):137-138.

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Rehabilitation has gained public support much more rapidly than it has from the medical profession. Private and governmental sources have built rehabilitation programs and facilities, which has increased the demand for care more rapidly than the supply of medical and paramedical personnel. Physiatric training programs are besieged by requests for graduates which cannot be met. Training programs for physiatrists are going unfilled at a rate exceeded only by the dismal rate of Public Health programs. In this situation no qualified physician can fail to gain admittance into a score of good Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency training programs, and I am unaware of any resident, who after completing training and certification, has not been eagerly sought if he has made his availability known. The 1967 report of the Commission on Education in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation stated that "2,000 additional physiatrists are needed to fill present demands in the various . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Physical Medicine at the 117th annual convention of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 17, 1968.

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