Abstract
To the Editor.— As director of the Health Service Corps, I agree with the point made by Pollner and Parrish in their article National Health Service Corps and Primary Care Training (228:1405, 1974) that the Corps and primary care training programs have many common interests. This is why more than one fourth of Corps sites are already affiliated with family practice programs. In seven sites, Corps assignees are presently, or soon will be, receiving residency credit. Three sites will serve as rural model family practices separated from training centers by 40 to 50 miles or more. A larger number of affiliations could have been completed except for the fact that most of the training programs are urban-based and are not located in areas of critical need and, therefore, are not available for affiliation under current circumstances. Ultimately, it is our goal to have every site affiliated with a primary
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