REPLY
Other Approaches to Primary Care Training
Robert G. Petersdorf, MD
15 July 1994 | Volume 121 Issue 2 | Pages 153-154
IN RESPONSE:
I agree with Dr. Cross's comment. My colleagues from Ohio propose what is in essence a generic training program in primary care. This idea is not new and has been discussed many times among the leaders of the involved disciplines. In fact, I spent many meetings engaged in this academic form of "indoor sport." Although intellectually appealing, a unified primary care training experience seems difficult in view of the biopolitical issues involved. Each of the specialties has a different reason for maintaining its turf. Rehashing the logic of their reasoning would serve no useful purpose here. Suffice it to say that although many good reasons exist for studying and implementing the plan proposed by the writers of this letter, I am afraid that most physicians in internal medicine, family medicine, and pediatrics are not ready to accept it.
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