The need for a clearly stated curriculum.
Many of the problems which are presented to family physicians are not covered by their medical training. In a residency program, these aspects of family medicine must be stressed-preferably by the same teacher, preferably over a period of time not less than two three-month blocks. The political implications of this emphasis are many and varied, but all of them lead to the same endpoint: the need for a clearly stated curriculum. The only way critics of family medicine training programs can be answered is by clear statements of content intended to produce a particular type of physician.