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Title
The social mission of medical education: ranking the schools.
Authors
Mullan, Fitzhugh; Chen, Candice; Petterson, Stephen; Kolsky, Gretchen; Spagnola, Michael
Abstract
The basic purpose of medical schools is to educate physicians to care for the national population. Fulfilling this goal requires an adequate number of primary care physicians, adequate distribution of physicians to underserved areas, and a sufficient number of minority physicians in the workforce.
Publication
Annals of internal medicine, 2010, Vol 152, Issue 12, p804