Internists: More Specialists or More Generalists?

  1. DAVID E. ROGERS, M.D.
  1. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation;
    Princeton, New Jersey

    Excerpt

    All of us who concern ourselves with the overall design and effectiveness of the American medical care enterprise owe a large debt to Dr. Alvin Tarlov and his colleagues. Starting with the work of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Commission (GME-NAC) in 1976, they have given us an evolving picture of the number and kinds of physicians this nation produces, and their educated guesses about how supply will match with needs as we move toward the 21st century. Of particular interest to those of us who have chosen the only truly enlightened physician role—that of being internists—are their regular

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