RT Journal
A1 Carmichael HT
T1 COntinuing education for psychiatrists
JF Archives of General Psychiatry
JO Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1969
FD June 1
VO 20
IS 6
SP 617
OP 617
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740180001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1969.01740180001001
AB A "consumer revolution" is upon us. In virtually every area of commerce and service, the buyer is no longer willing to "beware" of the product; he now demands that the producer give him a safe and effective product. Automobiles, for example, have been added to the public's "close-scrutiny" list that once included only food and drugs. And when the President's Advisory Commission on Health Manpower warned, more than a year ago, that a "quality gap" exists between optimal and medical care and that which is currently offered to the public, one could hear the rumblings of a "patient" revolution reaching into the domain of the physician.What this portends is difficult to say. Mandatory periodic relicensure or recertification is clearly a possibility if medicine does not move, and move quickly, to demonstrate that practitioners can be and are being continuously brought up to date in their knowledge and