Medical school celebrates Primary Care Day
Second-year medical student Latasha Burgess and E. Goodman Obot, director
of
student programs for the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine,
coordinated the medical school's celebration of Primary Care Day.
Designed to
inform medical students about primary care as a career option, the day's
activities included a lecture by local family practitioner Andy Morley
Jr., a
panel discussion and small discussion groups. Since 1992, medical
students have
shown an increased interest in generalist careers, resulting in a
national
increase from 9 percent to 15.7 percent in family practice; 2.9 percent
to 7.7
percent in internal medicine; and 2.6 percent to 4.2 percent in general
pediatrics.