Education and Training of the Physician for Family Practice

are now considering improving the preparation of our successors. But in reality we are biologists, physiologists, anatomists, biochemists, psychologists, psychiatrists, internists, general practitioners, surgeons, obstetricians, paediatricians, scientific students of the community, administrators of medicine or medical schools. Very few of us are educators, brought up in the discipline of the science of education; few of us earn all our living by teaching, by educating, or by studying education. Perhaps we think of our students too much as physicians, as scientists, as community servants, and too little as students. If we are going to think of them as students and apply ourselves seriously to education, we must first set up an educational organization within the medical school. Each stage of learning must be planned by representatives of the departments predominantly concerned in that stage. The appropriate methods of

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