Abstract
To the Editor.— Suggestions that the medical school curriculum should be shortened (eg, from four years to three years) include variants such as contracting the traditional two years of basic science into one year, transferring the freshman medical school year to the premedical curriculum, and the like. Not having seen the following statement published, I shall belabor the obvious and point out that, barring other concomitant changes such as increasing the size of each medical school class, the increase in the number of physicians produced by reducing the medical school course from four years to three would be a one-time bonus equal to one year's class and would not be recurrent. A reduction in course length may be advantageous to the student and it may make medicine more attractive as a profession. Lack of attractiveness as a profession is not a factor in the overall shortage of physicians, however, since
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