Voices from family medicine: cooperation across disciplines. Interview by William B. Ventres, John J. Frey and Alfred O. Berg.

A variety of individuals lent their efforts to the establishment of family medicine as an academic discipline. Many had careers outside general or family practice, yet because of their interests and active involvement, they helped forge the way toward a rational and comprehensive education for family physicians in this country. In this transcript, edited from interviews conducted in 1992, four contributors from other disciplines discuss their perspectives on the history of family medicine.

A description of the role of the university in modern society together with encouragement to the medical school to turn its flirtation with the university into a full blown romance.

President Odegaard here presents some stimulating thoughts for medical educators and for other members of the medical profession. Although a historian by profession, he has considerable familiarity with medical matters from his membership in the Citizens Commission on Graduate Medical Education (Millis Commission), the President's National Advisory Commission on Health Manpower and the Natonal Advisory Health Council.