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Chapter 12: International Perspectives

DOI:

10.1891/9780826146618.0012

Authors

  • Kantrowitz, Martin P.
  • Kaufman, Arthur

Abstract

This chapter discusses the origins, design, implementation, and effects of the Primary Care Curriculum (PCC). It is a first-person account of a moving human experience, in which some deeply caring people search for ways to provide a humane, effective learning experience for students who are seen as preparing to be practitioners of a humane, changing profession. The successes and failures of the varied approaches of medical schools worldwide can provide a rich data base of experience from which others can learn. Vehicles for rapid dissemination of such information are needed. It is thus imperative that international networking be activated among the many interested medical schools. The medical profession has been caught up with overspecialization at the expense of universal coverage of health services. Time and time again, developing countries have expended valuable resources in establishing medical schools based on models from highly sophisticated and industrialized countries.