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Providing the "right" physician for the health care of the future will require substantial changes in the way doctors are educated. This view was voiced in a report from the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Roles of Academic Health Centers in the 21st Century¹: "Among all of the academic health center roles, education will require the greatest changes in the coming decade. We regard education as one of the primary mechanisms for initiating a cultural shift toward an emphasis on the needs of patients and populations and a focus on improving health, using the best of science and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Office of Academic Affiliations, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC (M.C.); Harvard Medical School, Boston (M.C.); and the Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, CA (D.M.I.).

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