The Comprehensive Family Medicine Training Program: Has Sociology Found a Place in Graduate Medical Education?

The idea that physical man reflects social man is not a new one in medicine, as medical historians such as Siegerist (1960), Shryock (1960), Haggard (1929), and Dubos (1959) will attest. Even with reference only to the post-Flexnerian era of scientific specialized medicine in the United States, the need is well established for physicians who are oriented to physical man as a social creature influenced by family and environment.