| Idealistic young men and women have always found | | | | real change will also work harder to realize their goals |
| an attraction with the medical profession. In recent | | | | and see real change. They want to live differently than |
| years, this trend has escalated with more and more | | | | their predecessors, and their goals and beliefs reflect |
| people joining the medical community for the chance to | | | | that attitude. And he doesn't want to be trapped by |
| work for the public good rather than the material | | | | the social conventions of his predecessors. |
| wealth it represents. | | | | Previously, doctors were primarily concerned with their |
| Consider the example of one 28-year-old doctor who | | | | social success and the amount of money they could |
| declined an offer of $30,000-plus from medical schools, | | | | earn. Instead, they hope to make a change in society's |
| private foundations, and pharmaceutical and insurance | | | | vision of a doctor as part of an elitist group concerned |
| companies. Instead he is paid $12,000 a year by the | | | | with the accumulation of money and material wealth. |
| organization he founded while he was still in medical | | | | Previous generations have a very difficult time |
| school. Delivering good medical service to Americans | | | | understanding the ideas and goals of the current |
| with improved conditions, this doctor and others are a | | | | generation. |
| new breed that are dedicated to their fellow man. | | | | The prevailing mind set is that the deliver of medical |
| This doctor indicates that he will not be a traditional | | | | care at all societal levels be determined by need |
| doctor, but will offer good treatment to everyone. | | | | instead of the financial resources of the patients. A |
| Serving specific neighborhoods, with legal, educational, | | | | current associate professor and leader in the effort to |
| dental and medical services, his organization is funded | | | | reform the goals of medical schools and their curricula |
| by the U.S. government to study how to deliver these | | | | says that this country has put billions of dollars into |
| needs to the people. He believes that one cannot | | | | medical care, yet the consumer will not see the |
| consider health care issues by themselves, that you | | | | available services or their health improve in the years |
| must study the overall needs of the entire community. | | | | ahead. Not only have improvements not been realized, |
| The basic problem is that there are simply not enough | | | | but in the absence of changes, conditions in the health |
| opportunities for the student whose desire is to | | | | care industry are likely to deteriorate. |
| innovate within the confines of the present system. | | | | Organizations that exist to encourage medical students |
| The U.S. is experiencing a crisis within the health field. | | | | to practice in the areas of preventative medicine, |
| Medical schools are starting to react but they require | | | | environmental health and public health have received |
| encouragement. Those wearing the spurs in this | | | | much attention in recent years. Across the United |
| situation are the medical students themselves and | | | | States, medical projects based in communities are |
| resultant from this, almost all of the country's medical | | | | subsidized by this organization. Their goal is to create a |
| schools now have courses in community medicine as | | | | more comprehensive medical school curricula that |
| part of their class offerings. As the wind has changed | | | | includes training on community health issues via the use |
| and more and more momentum is coming, they are | | | | of community outreach projects. |
| finding that most of the medical students are learning | | | | When students are exposed to these projects, there |
| of these difficulties. | | | | is more interest in returning to these areas to continue |
| The dean of one of this country's premier medical | | | | working with these projects. In addition to establishing |
| schools says that the current group of students have | | | | clinics and community projects in underprivileged areas, |
| an increased sense of social awareness and genuine | | | | many hospitals and medical schools have an interest in |
| compassion as well as serious concern about injustice | | | | the training of minority group doctors. |
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