Generalist medicine and the U.S. health care system / Stephen L. Isaacs, James R. Knickman, editors ; foreword by Risa Lavizzo-Mourey.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2004], ©2004.

xxx, 674 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

1st ed.

Primary care medicine and the education of generalist physicians / Jack M. Colwill -- Reconstructing primary care for the twenty-first century / Kevin Grumbach, Thomas Bodenheimer -- The ecology of medical care / Kerr L. White, T. Franklin Williams, Bernard G. Greenberg -- The need for a new medical model: a challenge for biomedicine / George L. Engel -- Meeting the challenge of family practice (the Willard Committee report): introduction / Ad Hoc Committee on Education for Family Practice of the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association -- The generalist function in medicine / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- General internal medicine at the crossroads of prosperity and despair: caring for patients with chronic diseases in an aging society / Eric B. Larson -- What does family practice need to do next? A cross-generational view / John P. Geyman, Erika Bliss.

Should there be a merger to a single primary care specialty for the twenty-first century? An affirmative view / Gerald T. Perkoff -- The generalist role of specialty physicians: is there a hidden system of primary care? / Roger A. Rosenblatt ... [et al.] -- Primary care and health: a cross-national comparison / Barbara Starfield -- Primary care in a new era: disillusion and dissolution? / Lewis G. Sandy, Steven A. Schroeder -- Improving the health care workforce: perspectives from twenty-four years' experience / Stephen L. Isaacs, Lewis G. Sandy, Steven A. Schroeder -- Improving access to health care through physician workforce reform: directions for the twenty-first century-Findings / Council on graduate medical education -- A manpower policy for primary health care / Institute of medicine -- The elusive generalist physician: can we reach a 50 percent goal? / David A. Kindig, James M. Cultice, Fitzhugh Mullan.

Economic and demographic trends signal an impending physician shortage / Richard A. Cooper ... [et al.] -- The ramifications of specialty-dominated medicine / Kevin Grumbach -- Influence of income, hours worked, and loan repayment on medical students' decision to pursue a primary care career / Michael P. Rosenthal ... [et al.] -- Physicians and rural America / Roger A. Rosenblatt, L. Gary Hart -- Practice sights: state primary care development strategies / Irene M. Wielawski -- The graduate education of physicians (the Millis commission report) / Citizens' Commission on Graduate Medical Education -- The education of physicians for primary care (excerpt): the elements of a successful program / Joel J. Alpert, Evan Charney -- Residency training in internal medicine: time for a change? / Steven A. Schroeder, Jonathan A. Showstack, Barbara Gerbert.

The education of pediatricians for primary care: the score after two score years / Evan Charney -- Sustaining the development of primary care in academic medicine / Thomas S. Inui ... [et al.] -- Influencing academic health centers: the Robert Wood Johnson foundation experience / Lewis G. Sandy, Richard Reynolds -- Comparing generalist and specialty care: discrepancies, deficiencies, and excesses / Martin T. Donohoe.

Quality of patient care by nurse practitioners and physician's assistants: a ten-year perspective / Harold C. Sox Jr. -- Primary care outcomes in patients treated by nurse practitioners or physicians: a randomized trial / Mary O. Mundinger ... [et al.] -- Support of nurse practitioners and physician assistants / Terrance Keenan.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.