Primary-Care Education in Multiple Specialties

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Views of primary-care education are somewhat analogous to the old fable about three blind men and an elephant. Each blind man, when asked, gave a very different description of the elephant — an accurate description reflecting his area of contact. In this analogy, the blind men can be construed to be family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics. The elephant, an animal of potentially enormous proportions, is primary-care education. There also is a fourth blind man — a man of lesser stature — who is too far removed to touch the animal directly. That man is the medical student . . .

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