Primary Care in Underserved Areas and Medical Education

To the Editor: My partner and I recently received our medical school alumni magazines. The one from Johns Hopkins noted that of 127 graduates in the class of 1989, only 1 was entering family practice. The one from Tufts noted with pride that 476 alumni were now faculty members of medical schools and that graduates have been entering academic medicine in increasing numbers since the 1950s.Our schools would do better to point with pride to the number of alumni practicing primary care in rural areas where there is a shortage of physicians or in the inner cities. The gross . . .