PEDIATRICS Vol. 29 No. 5 May 1962, pp. 687-688
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THE ACADEMY AND PEDIATRIC OPPORTUNITIES IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES

Louis K. Diamond M.D.1

1 The Children's Hospital, Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

Last october, in a talk before the American Academy of Pedatrics, on Nutritional Anemia in Tropical Countries, I mentioned several important reasons why American physicians, especially pediatricians, should seriously consider working for a year or more in some of the underprivileged countries abroad. Three points deserve special emphasis. First, it can constitute a period of most valuable training and experience.1 In our own country, it is not unusual these days for a man to complete his internship and still have failed to see important and formerly epidemic diseases in all their manifestations. How many Residents now can recognize the early signs and symptoms of measles, smallpox, diphtheria, tetanus, tuberculosis, and typhoid fever, to mention just a few.