Abstract
The emphasis of today's medical education rests principally on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The majority of medical students view with considerable disinterest the instruction they receive in the community control of infectious disease, sanitary measures, and other environmental factors in which they see no immediacy and which they cannot directly relate to the individual practice of medicine. Furthermore, many medical schools do not adequately emphasize the important role that preventive medicine can also play in the field of noncommunicable diseases. If one further considers that man is always more concerned about a problem at hand than one that may occur at some distant future, it is understandable that many practicing physicians are relatively uninformed about what preventive measures can do in the field of cancer, one of the major noninfectious diseases, as is well demonstrated by Dr. Samp's article in this issue ofThe Journal, p. 1001. After
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