A Study in Medical Action — The Student Health Organizations

A man should share the action and passion of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. Oliver Wendell Holmes PERHAPS for the first time in the history of American medical education the student is participating in the analysis and alteration of the process by which doctors are produced. No effort on the part of medical schools can meet the current shortage of 50,000 physicians that the Surgeon General cites.1 Qualitative changes must be made to produce a new kind of health professional who will grapple with the health crisis in America. The schools themselves, until the . . .