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Show Country Doctor Prescribes for Self-It s School HARRISBURG, PA. The country doctor in Pennsylvania has returned re-turned to school to learn the latest progress in the medical field. This mew venture in medical education, never attempted previously anywhere any-where in the world, has been hailed as a "pattern for other states." Sponsored by Pennsylvania Medi-cal Medi-cal society, the project has been accorded an enthusiastic reception ly some 840 physicians of small towns and rural areas. "Students" attend one eight-hour class a week in the nearest of six centrally located instruction centers. cen-ters. Teaching centers at present are in Allentown, Harrisburg, Johnstown, Oil City, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport. The course extends ex-tends for 10 weeks. Instructors are medical experts Irom leading training institutions of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. They lecture morning, afternoon and evening eve-ning on the latest know-how in medicine. Practical phases of diagnosis diag-nosis and treatment are covered, instructors in-structors explaining the best techniques tech-niques known to the medical profession. pro-fession. Of the 840 doctors who took the opening course 580 were general practitioners, most of them from small communities and rural areas. Sixty-two were specialists in internal inter-nal medicine, 61 were surgeons, 32 were obstetricians and gynecologists gynecolo-gists and 25 were neuro-psychia-trists. "This program has proved that the general practitioner, especially the typical country doctor, seeks to keep himself abreast of the latest progress In medicine," Dr. Charles W. Smith, chairman of the medical society's graduate education committee, com-mittee, said in commenting on success suc-cess of the venture. s |
