Innovations in Ambulatory-Care Education

There is a widening consensus that ambulatory care must play a far greater part in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. The GPEP Report noted that "Although fewer than five percent of all physician/patient contacts result in hospitalization clinical clerkships are predominantly based on hospital inpatient services."1 The report indicated the need for outpatient and community educational settings.In this issue of the Journal, Rieselbach and Jackson2 and Perkoff3 cogently summarize the factors that increasingly limit the role of inpatient care as a means for satisfactory medical education. Expanding techniques for diagnosis and therapy in the ambulatory setting result in . . .