RT Journal
A1 Castle C
T1 FEllowship in family practice
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1978
FD October 20
VO 240
IS 17
SP 1892
OP 1892
DO 10.1001/jama.1978.03290170074036
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1978.03290170074036
AB 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