PEDIATRICS Vol. 55 No. 2 February 1975, pp. 286
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R. G. Petersdorf 1

1 Departments of Medicine

The major problems of departments of medicine are increased in teaching load, dispersion of house staff through several affiliated hospitals, a lack of resources to do all the tasks asked of them, and a schizophrenia concerning the departments' mission to tertiary subspecialty medicine as opposed to primary or general medicine. The major issue confronting departments of medicine is a solution to the problem of training general physicians.