TY  - JOUR
T1  - HEalth teaching by physicians
AU  - Nemir A
Y1  - 1949/06/04
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900400047020
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 493
EP  - 493
VL  - 140
IS  - 5
N2  - To the Editor:— 
    One of the objectives of the American Medical Association which has been stressed a great deal lately is public health education. What may be a doctor's role in such a program? One of the finest avenues open is health teaching in a college or university. Our belated interest in public relations can receive impetus from this contact with the public, teaching hundreds of impressionable young students in a wholesome atmosphere away from the sickroom and office. Such an experience will be pleasurable and beneficial to all concerned.There are many fields of health taught in a university in which the knowledge of the physician is invaluable. At the University of Utah last year, three thousand students in a student body of ten thousand took courses in health. Except for a few hundred in the field of school health education, all these students were taught by busy practicing
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900400047020
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900400047020
ER  -