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By John Murtagh. 1107 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1994. $79. ISBN 0-07-452807-6.

Medical schools are scrambling to meet society's demand for primary care physicians by developing educational programs that address the knowledge, skills, and attitudes critical for providing high-quality primary care. The first step is to define the core curriculum, followed by steps to develop the processes to teach, evaluate, and refine that curriculum. But where are the textbooks that address even the first step? Murtagh, a highly experienced professor of general practice in Australia, provides a new textbook for general ambulatory practice, which accounts for the bulk of the core curriculum.

Throughout the book, Murtagh offers thoughtful distillations of his front-line . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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