A student can complete four years of American medical school without ever being required to spend time in the kind of clinic where most primary care actually happens. A group of medical educators argues that this gap is one reason the country keeps failing to produce the primary care doctors it needs.
The argument appears in a perspective piece in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, written on behalf of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of Chiefs and Leaders of General Internal Medicine Hess Initiative Work Group. The lead author is Tovah Tripp, M.D., associate professor of internal medicine at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine, the school's internal medicine clerkship director, and a practicing primary care physician.
