PEDIATRICS Vol. 80 No. 5 November 1987, pp. 736-737
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Preparing Residents for the Doctor Denver

DONALD C. GARGAS MD1

1 Toppenish, WA

At 10 weeks she could grasp a rattle, at 6 months she imitated speech sounds, and at 2 years she pedaled her first tricycle. She had aced the Denver Developmental Screening Test.

Now, at age 30 years, she is about to face yet another growth and development hurdle: The Doctor Denver. Will she ace it again? Or could there be a "delay"?

She is verbal, assertive, confident, current, and highly skilled. The newly trained, board-eligible physician represents high-tech, state-of-the-art medicine. But how well prepared, as a person, is the young physician to make the critical transition from university medicine to community practice?