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C. Hilmon Castle, MD

JAMA. 1978;240(17):1892.

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The rapid growth of family practice has far surpassed the specialty's ability to mobilize enough qualified persons to ensure adequate faculty supervision and role models.¹ Concern has been expressed about this inordinately rapid expansion in a milieu of questionable faculty supervision and an insufficient number of scholars committed to family medicine.² This problem is likely to be aggravated by response to a recent Institute of Medicine study³ that recommends the creation of an even larger effort in graduate and undergraduate training in primary care.

Many clinicians have recently left practice to provide leadership in graduate and undergraduate education and to enhance the development of family practice as a specialty. In addition, however, the creation of the academic base necessary for family practice as a specialty and family medicine as a discipline, to form solid relationships within the academic community, will require a new type of person, preoccupied . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
University of Utah Medical Center Salt Lake City

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