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To the Editor: Whitcomb and Cohen¹ and Fincher² (Aug. 12 issue) call for changing the training settings for students and residents in primary care to reflect the types of environments in which high-quality primary care can best be provided, with use of "models of efficient, interdisciplinary, patient-friendly care in academic medical centers and exemplary community-based practices." Although I agree with these sentiments, if these training settings do not reflect practice in the real world, we run the risk of alienating potential future primary care trainees with "bait and switch" tactics. Unfortunately, although the chronic care model, for example, provides a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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