What is the School Physician's Real Role?
Dukelow, D.A.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 27-31
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14106751 Document Number: 10394
The school physician is an administrator, an educator, a specialist in fitness; a liaison between the school, the practicing professions, and the families of his children. Oriented in the prevention of illness and the promotion of health his major responsibility should be as medical advisor to the school, a consultant in health education, an administrator of far reaching programs of child health. To burden him with endless routine physical examinations deprives the school and the community of the services he alone can perform as a medical interpreter. All recognized authorities agree essentially on the role the school physician should perform. For one reason or another, comparatively few are free enough from routine to reach the attainable heights of good school health practice. However, when the community of parents and the practitioners of medicine and of education feel strongly enough about the nature of the school health program they want, means for implementing it can be found.
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