The world’s most famous medical school is teeming with experts on cutting-edge procedures such as face transplants and fetal heart repair. But students say it’s missing something fundamental: a department that trains doctors to care for the whole family, whether delivering babies, giving kids shots, or performing surgeries.
Harvard Medical School is one of only 10 medical schools in the nation that don’t have a department of family medicine, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Yale, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and other elite schools are also among those 10.
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