TY  - JOUR
T1  - OPportunities for intensive graduate training in obstetrics
Y1  - 1939/02/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1939.02800070048015
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 632
EP  - 632
VL  - 112
IS  - 7
N2  - The importance of providing medical students and interns with sufficient opportunity for observation and participation in obstetric procedures cannot be overestimated. While many medical schools and teaching hospitals have attempted to organize obstetric instruction so that supervised training of students and interns may provide a maximum utilization of the teaching material available, there are still many patients and considerable free time outside the conventional academic year that may be utilized for undergraduate and graduate study.A commendable development of the past two years provides practicing physicians in several regions with the opportunity to spend from one to four weeks in hospitals with active ward services in obstetrics. In each the effort is cooperative. The hospital or medical school opens its teaching facilities to the profession; the respective state medical society's committee on maternal health arranges the graduate program and announces the course, and the respective state department of health lends
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1939.02800070048015
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800070048015
ER  -