RT Journal
T1 NEtherlands
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD August 10
VO 93
IS 6
SP 470
OP 471
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710060046020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710060046020
AB The Annual Report of the Committee on Postgraduate Medical Courses 
    The committee on postgraduate medical courses, established at the general meeting held in Utrecht, met for the first time at The Hague, under the chairmanship of Prof. P. C. T. Van der Hoeven, Mr. S. Brandes serving as secretary. The proposal put forward by the preceding committee was discussed. That proposal provided that every physician should be obliged to spend two months in a clinic at least once in ten years. This proposal, it will be recalled, was rejected by the general session because of the enormous pecuniary sacrifices that it would have entailed. It was decided to send a note to a number of university professors, head physicians and directors of certain hospitals to ask whether, in principle, they would be willing to receive practitioners at definite periods. The large majority replied favorably. From all directions, suggestions poured in