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Smith, David R.; Anderson, Ron J. – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1990
Traces academic medicine's historical opposition to community medicine and its emphasis on traditional hospital-cased curricula subspecialties, to the neglect of primary and preventive care, community-oriented medicine, and public health. Calls for reducing barriers to basic medical services for all, and for training physicians equipped to respond…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Health Services, Economically Disadvantaged, Federal Aid