The Association of American Medical Colleges recommends that academic medical centers assume responsibility for graduate medical education. Results of a survey are presented to determine the plans of the medical centers, the status of these plans, and the centers with completed plans. (PG)

In order to improve the quality of health care, medical colleges and universities and government must work together. (HS)

The role of the medical school in continuing education is 5 fold: to produce competent graduates, to instill in its graduates life-long learning, to make available the educational resources, to assist the physician in redefining his role, and to continually educate the public. (Author/PG)

Proper programs must be created to train physicians specifically educated to provide comprehensive medical care. (IR)

Medical college curriculum must be continually changed to take into consideration changes in our society, and to develop new skills and new concepts in medicine to solve public health problems. (IR)

A U.S. Representative contends that Congress should continue to provide financial support for medical schools but that the schools must assume national responsibilities to effect needed changes in American medicine, e.g. to correct specialty maldistribution, imbalance between primary and nonprimary care, and increases in foreign medical graduates.…

In discussing means of solving the national problems of medical manpower development and inadequate distribution of medical care, the President of Stanford University cautions against planless tinkering with the network of institutional relationships and calls for restraint and reluctance to impose solutions along with a preference to suggest or…

Proposed health manpower legislation is described as an example of increasing government control of medical education. The assistant secretary for health, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, calls for bold and cohesive private action in articulating a national health policy participated in but not controlled by the federal…

Medical schools need to stress programs specifically concerned with interesting physicians involved in new plans for the health services. (IR)

The President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation points up the lack of a dependable system of ambulatory front-line medical care in the U.S., outlines basic capabilities of the system needed, and suggests the role of foundations and academic centers in developing training programs recast in light of real world situations. (JT)