The Comprehensive Care and Teaching Program at Cornell University Medical College was a non-departmental program aimed at a more complete care of ambulant patients, while providing greater integration of outpatient care with students' training during their fourth year in medical school. This collection includes the research gathered during the five years of the study including reports and student diaries.

The papers consist of three kinds of materials: field notes of situations, e.g. meetings, classes, informal gatherings, etc. observed by the field workers; informal interviews with faculty members and students in the Cornell University Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania Medical School; and diaries kept by a number of students selected to represent different stages of training and different kinds of interests.