Abstract
<h3>To the Editor.—</h3> In the article "The Interface Between Undergraduate and Graduate Medical Education" (241:1148, 1979), William D. Holden, MD, names a problem in medical education but does not define it. For my personal use, I define the interface as the transition from juvenile education to adult education. My insight was stimulated some years ago when, in another context, I heard William Griffith, of the Department of Education of the University of Chicago, make the following statement: "I think that one of our greatest problems in dealing with [teaching] adults is the fact that they have been children." There is a difference between juvenile and adult education; the difference is definable and recognizable, but the details of a medical school curriculum content, elective or required, are not much to the point. The schoolchild, college student, and medical student are fit into the juvenile education system lacking well-defined personal goals and
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