A Note on the Administration of Graduate Education

Plans are being made for a major revision in the administration of graduate medical education in American medicine. The origin and basis for the proposed changes have a long history, running through the sequence of the numerous named reports that have been produced by various committees during the past ten years: the Coggeshall Report of 1965 (sponsored by the Executive Council of the Association of American Medical Colleges [AAMC]),¹ the Millis Report of 1966 (sponsored by the American Medical Association [AMA]),² the Willard Report of 1966 (sponsored by the Council on Medical Education of the AMA),³ the Carnegie Commission Report of 1970 (initiated by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education).⁴ These reports led to an important culmination: the 1971 meeting of the general assembly of the AAMC that approved one of its special committees' statements on graduate medical education. The key components of that statement were