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Family Practice

In addition to using the clinic to explore
new means of delivering and financing medical
care, the clinic also would offer the School of
Medicine a new way of training more family
practitioners.

"We are interested both in stimulating interest
in family practice among medical students
and in providing means of training people who
are already interested," Dr. Lindsay said. While
in the initial stages of the program he will be
assisted by Donald J. Waldowski, assistant
professor of pediatrics, the staff will be expanded
as the program grows.

Basic to the program, once it is located in its
permanent headquarters, would be the use of
such paramedical personnel as nurse clinicians.

"American medicine is shorthanded. The use
of paramedical personnel is an obvious and
feasible solution," according to Dr. Lindsay.