EDUCATION
The author would hesitate to add another article to the literature were it not for a specific invitation from Dr. Grover Powers to contribute to his section in Pediatrics.
Abstract
IN RECENT years much has been written about various aspects of medical education. I would hesitate to add another article to the literature were it not for a specific invitation from Dr. Grover Powers to contribute to his section in Pediatrics. This is a privilege and an opportunity which I welcome. For the past 65 to 70 years pediatricians have striven—and for the most part successfully—to establish in medical schools separate departments of pediatrics. They have argued that pediatrics was an important specialty. They have pointed out that the small infant is a very different sort of organism than the school child; and that the latter presents very different health problems than does the mature adult. They have demonstrated conclusively that anatomic structure, physiologic functioning and responses to disease, or to therapeutic measures, are all unique for particular age levels. The Child Research Council and the Department for the Study of Human Growth, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver.