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Streamlining the curriculum and abolishing the internship may speed up the production of more physicians and improve distribution of medical care-but at a price. One must ask whether a generation of physicians and teachers is likely to emerge that does not even know how ignorant it is. One must ask also whether current curricula are adequately training students to comprehend the patient as well as his disease.
George L. Engel (Wed,) studied this question.