Abstract
Many of the pressures that have brought about an abbreviation of medical education from the point of entry into college through the residency are well known. Not as well understood are the problems introduced by the various efforts to shorten each of the separate components by groups not closely in tune with similar efforts in the other areas. At least three separate movements, each intended to reduce the duration of training, have gone on independently, each with little relationship to the others. The premedical program, the medical school experience, and the intern-residency period have all been affected. The major factors which have brought about changes in the duration of the educational program seem to have been the concern of the public for more physicians, together with the interests of a new kind of student. These students have placed emphasis on the relevant and the practical to a degree which has
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