This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in JAMA  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Walter C. Bornemeier, MD

JAMA. 1970;214(12):2181-2184.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

For five months I have been privileged to serve the American Medical Association as its president. At this time, it seems proper for me to make a report to this House of Delegates.

As President of the Association, I have discussed medical education as it is involved in the production of a well-qualified physician, in a reasonable period of time, and at a reasonable cost.

I have discussed graduate education (the residency) and pointed out that we are training our students to become specialists in gown instead of town. By gown, I mean the hospital gown. What we need is doctors who know how to take care of people in town, the person with his shoes on.

I have pointed out that it is in the hospital, not the medical school, where a student panics at the thought of going into solo general practice as he sees bed after bed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Footnotes
Read before the House of Delegates during the 24th clinical convention of the American Medical Association, Boston, Nov 29, 1970.

Reprint requests to Officers Services, American Medical Association, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago 60610 (Dr. Bornemeier).

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?