Medicine's attractions and detractions. Looking toward tomorrow's medical studuent.

Abstract

In looking toward tomorrow's medical student, the medical profession should examine present day medicine's attractions and detractions. Physicians involved in medical education, representatives of organized medicine, and society as a whole are intimately concerned with what the future holds in regard to medical manpower and its quality. There is much tangible evidence that organized medicine is concerned about medical education. Student loan funds sponsored by medical societies, financial aid by practicing physicians to medical schools through the medium of the American Medical Education Fund, and annual conferences such as the ones sponsored by the American Medical Association bear this out. Organized medicine is aware of the serious financial problems faced by many medical schools, which interfere with any possible lowering of tuition and prevent provision of adequate assistance to medical students through sufficient and realistic loan funds and scholarships. The Council on Medical Education has suggested that at least 10