Abstract
In late 1962 when the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association asked the Citizens (Millis) Commission to study the problem of graduate education for physicians, it was in recognition of the need to make a broad and forwardlooking appraisal of the field with an eye to recommending apropriate and necessary changes. The extent of the proposed appraisal is best told by the following quotation from the specific charge to the commission, which was to make: (1) A determination of the various kinds of professional medical careers necessary to provide... society with medical services of a quality limited only by available knowledge. To the extent it is feasible, this would include an estimation of the quantitative distribution of the differing medical talents within the medical profession as a whole. (2) A definition of the general and specific characteristics of educational programs beyond medical school which will most effectively provide
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