ABSTRACT
The same survey showed that in a sizable number of programs, many courses in the new morbidity were still elective rather than mandatory, an arrangement that advocates of the new pediatrics argue is a convenient "copout" for programs that were ambivalent about the value of the new pediatrics (Table 6.1). The ratio of elective to mandatory courses in child development was 7:13, in behavioral pediatrics 7:13, in adolescent medicine 8:14, in handicapping conditions 9:9, in genetic counseling 13:6, and in extramural primary care 15:9.
