Medical educators told to reduce enrollments.
HEW predicts that in the next decade, the United States faces an oversupply of physicians who will be of the wrong type and practicing in the wrong places. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano announced the government's plans to deal with this projected problem in an address before the Association of American Medical Colleges. Also released at the meeting was a report on minority student opportunities in medicine that outlined some of the problems faced by affirmative action programs and future directions.
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