Wilson M
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Curr Opin Pediatr. 1994 Oct;6(5):513-8.
There is a growing consensus that the United States is training more physicians than it needs or can afford. Public resources are likely be used to bend the graduate medical education enterprise increasingly toward the production of generalist physicians to practice primary care. Pediatrics, with its generalist tradition, can stand tall at this crossroads if it renews its commitment to training high quality generalists and assumes a leadership position as graduate medical education moves from the hospital into the community.
越来越多的人达成共识，即美国培养的医生数量超过了其需求或承受能力。公共资源可能会被用于使毕业后医学教育体系越来越倾向于培养从事初级保健的全科医生。儿科学凭借其全科传统，如果重新致力于培养高质量的全科医生，并在毕业后医学教育从医院转向社区的过程中占据领导地位，那么在这个十字路口就能发挥重要作用。
