| Three WHO consultants point out the inadequacy of using only the hospital as the setting for training today's physicians and paramedics. Its limitations are threefold: it is relatively isolated from the community, it provides closely defined and limited services, and its patients are not representative of the community. In the hospital, the student encounters an exaggerated proportion of rare conditions, and he sees disease as a hospital episode and not a community p suggested, therefore, that some of the student's training be removed to the health centre, the outpatient department, the field practice area, etc., so that he may experience medical practice in its natural setting and become acquainted with his role in medicine. |