Medical resources and medical education

Contemporary problems of medical care organization: teaching and learning1

“…A second similar study undertaken by another group of students obtained estimates from a probability sample of physicians serving a defined metropolitan region of two million persons of their weekly expenditure of time. Again, on completion by the students, a paper was published (Starfield, Rabin, Glickstein, McCormick, Jackson, and Broske, 1971). The faculty advisers spent considerable time in completing the final versions of both papers for publication but the essential work and the associated learning was the students'.…”