Undergraduate education in primary care: the Rockford experience.
Four years of experience with an undergraduate program in primary care in a new community-based medical school are described. Students are intimately involved over a two-and-a-half-year period in the delivery of primary care in rural and semi-rural community health centers. Despite problems of financing and, especially, faculty recruitment and development, the program has been enthusiastically endorsed by students and patients and appears to represent a viable new model for medical education.
D002321:Career Choice; D003153:Community Health Services; D003479:Curriculum; D004467:Economics; D004504:Education, Medical, Undergraduate; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007087:Illinois; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D011320:Primary Health Care