TY  - JOUR
T1  - LEtter from an editor
AU  - Mellinkoff SM
Y1  - 1969/01/01
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300110105022
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 103
EP  - 103
VL  - 123
IS  - 1
N2  - Now that the proletariat is disappearing into white collars, it sometimes seems to me that deans and similar journeymen are becoming the new "wretched of the earth."Except when I venture onto ward rounds, it often seems to me at my desk that those receding but warmly remembered years of residency have for me come to naught. Luckily, however, this dark cloud is nowadays frequently riven by sunny shafts from those who advocate drastic reformation of our residencies and internships, for example, Daniel H. Funkenstein, MD, in his recent editorial in the Archives entitled "Our Obsolete Residencies" (122:279-280 [Sept] 1968). In these critiques I find a measure of self-renewal, for while I do not believe that to have had a residency is necessarily to comprehend that kind of postgraduate medical education, I also do not think that a residency and subsequent uninterrupted contact with house officers are a serious
SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.1969.00300110105022
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1969.00300110105022
ER  -