Whither Neurology?
- 18 October 1984
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 311 (16) , 1048-1050
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198410183111611
Abstract
From time to time neurology has been subjected to close scrutiny and criticism, both by neurologists and by colleagues in other medical specialties. It has recently been claimed that an excessive number of neurologists are being trained and that the outcome will threaten rather than improve the quality of neurologic care.1 , 2 The often quoted figures of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee estimate a surplus of 3150 neurologists by 1990, an excess of 160 per cent.3 In my view, the issues facing neurology are more complex than those alluded to recently. The problems stem from inadequacies in the kind . . .Keywords
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