An Experiment in Medical Manpower Recruitment
Holland, J.W.
Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey 61: 19-22
1964
ISSN/ISBN: 0025-7524 PMID: 14105280 Document Number: 8239
This forum, presented to over three thousand students, stimulated an active interest in medicine and its allied fields. This was demonstrated by the interesting context of the more than three hundred written questions received from these students. Their contents indicated lack of knowledge and understanding of medicine from the highschool level to actual practice of the art, necessitating additional forums of this type to educate and stimulate the future physicians and medical personnel. A particular reward of the forum was the notification that eight able students who previously had not even considered medicine as a career have now directed their studies to this field. Dr. Read summed up the meeting with the following: "There are four great days in a doctor's life-one when he receives his Doctor of Medicine degree; next when he marries, to be followed by his first view of his first born; and, finally, the day his friends pay him their departing respect. But don't worry about that last one as there is no Hell for doctors. They catch it all here on Earth." The interesting scope of medicine necessitates constant study, more and more narrow specialization, and the enlistment of many technologists of all educational levels whose activities the physician must direct in a concerted effort to conserve the health of the nation-"our country's most important resource."
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