Murray J L, Wartman S A, Swanson A G
Department of Family Practice, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City 66103.
Acad Med. 1992 Jan;67(1):8-11. doi: 10.1097/00001888-199201000-00002.
This essay begins with the history from 1989 through late 1991 of the Primary Care Organization's Consortium (PCOC), a group of representatives from nine major academic and professional organizations for primary care specialties. The PCOC was formed to discuss what might be done to reverse the alarming decrease in the number of medical students who choose primary care specialties. The article reviews some of the conditions that many believe have caused the continuing move away from primary care careers, and concludes with a description of the PCOC's program to encourage medical students to choose primary care careers, and the new opportunities for collaborative planning of such programs that are now available to medical schools. The PCOC's success in defining its program is due to a process of interdisciplinary planning and collaboration at the national level that hopefully will facilitate similar collaboration among medical school departments.
本文开篇讲述了1989年至1991年末基层医疗组织联盟（PCOC）的历史，该联盟由九个主要基层医疗专业学术和专业组织的代表组成。PCOC的成立旨在讨论如何扭转选择基层医疗专业的医学生数量急剧下降的局面。文章回顾了许多人认为导致人们持续远离基层医疗职业的一些情况，并以对PCOC鼓励医学生选择基层医疗职业的计划的描述作为结尾，以及医学院校现在可利用的此类计划的协作规划新机会。PCOC在确定其计划方面取得成功，得益于国家层面的跨学科规划与协作过程，有望促进医学院各部门之间的类似协作。
