Collaboration of general non-university hospitals.

The qualified specialist in internal medicine must maintain his knowledge at the level he reached when he specialized. This may be done by reading medical journals as well as regular attendance at his local hospital. Hence non-university hospitals have an important part to play in the continuing education of doctors, particularly since nowadays their facilities match the high standard of the doctors working in them. Moreover, the hospitals have had a considerable stimulus from the attachment of medical students to them for teaching, as well as from the building of medical postgraduate centres. It is important that the specialist in internal medicine should be integrated as much as possible into the hospital department and invited to participate fully in its work.