Hippocrates recycled.

Abstract

Medical education in the United States has at least three serious deficiencies: its focus on medical under-graduate education rather than on medical education as a continuum throughout the career of a physician; its failure to recognize the basic incompatibility of highly sophisticated medical research and the education of the practicing physician; and its extremely high cost. The Hippocratic concept of preceptor education as an alternative has much to recommend it in replacing the present system, which underwrites the cost of student education through research grants and subsidies, but greatly neglects the continuing education of the practicing physician.