Medical trainees and recent graduates of 3 Quebec medical schools were surveyed as to how they valued 16 dimensions of medical competence classified in 4 broad categories: clinical, technological, humanistic, and social and preventive. Medical trainees gave more importance to basic diagnostic and therapeutic skills. (Author/MLW)

A survey of departments of internal medicine to assess information about requirements for ambulatory clinical experiences for medical students is discussed. The survey yielded information on status, reasons for ambulatory care training, characteristics, goals, structure, ratings, problems, and difficulties for students. (Author/MLW)

A survey of 549 biomedical trainees (graduate and postdoctoral students, medical students, residents, fellows) investigated training in research ethics, observation of scientific misconduct, and willingness to select, omit, or fabricate data to win a grant or publish a paper. The efficacy of current ethics instruction is questioned. (Author/MSE)

A scale designed to measure professional attitudes and behaviors associated with the medical education and residency training environment was pilot-tested by 529 medical students and residents in five institutions. The scale's internal reliability was relatively high, and factor analysis revealed three subscales. Results are interpreted as an…

The challenge for medical educators is to develop for their students a firm educational foundation in nutritional science. A nutrition "laboratory" experience was developed at the Medical College of Virginia. Students examine their own nutrient intakes in relation to class means, national norms, and dietary recommendations. (MLW)

Students at a large private medical school were surveyed concerning the appropriateness of traditional cheating behaviors and behaviors related to professional misconduct and dishonesty in patient care. They also rated the acceptability of various rationalizations for these behaviors. (Author/MLW)

The authors report their findings concerning the process used to evaluate medicine clerks, specifically identifying the importance given to subjective evaluations, made by attending physicians, compared with the importance given to clerks' performances on objective means of evaluation based on written or oral examinations, whether national or…

A survey of first-year medical students on their first day and after a year measured discrepancies between expectations and experiences. At the end of the second year, students reminded of their unfulfilled expectations expressed no affect on class morale or emotional climate. Most were indifferent to their first-year responses. (Author/MSE)

A survey of 100 first-year medical students found that, although they felt adequately prepared prior to exposure to a human cadaver, they wished greater preparation after the experience, especially through more discussion with anatomy staff. Results suggest a need for preparation for coping with dissection and followup for professional and…

A 12-item questionnaire was administered in 1987-88 to 445 medical students, 133 medical school applicants, and 111 nursing students to assess any differences in their attitudes toward medicine-related AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) issues. The findings suggest that education has an important role in changing attitudes. (Author/MLW)

A survey with a list of 31 words that are commonly used as scale labels for the evaluation of medical student performance was mailed to 132 instructors who teach in family practice preceptorships. Data analysis consisted of generating median, twenty-fifth percentile, and seventy-fifth percentile values for each label. (MLW)

Comparison of the beliefs and attitudes of a sample of pediatric residents (n=56) and practicing physicians (n=1,500) concerning children with insulin-dependent Diabetes Mellitus and the disease itself found residents in their second and third years of training considerably more negative about both than physicians or first-year residents.…

Data on medical students and physicians in the United States, European Union countries, and other European countries include practicing doctors and medical students; medical school applicants and students admitted per year; and ratios of doctor:population, applicant:population, five-year students:population, accepted applicants:all applicants,…

In 1988-89, 170 medical school faculty and 227 students completed questionnaires at the University of Louisville. Both the faculty and the students were found to be fearful of infection, had strong negative attitudes toward AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) patients, and had low levels of confidence in the current knowledge about AIDS.…

Students were asked to state their selected specialty and to rank the importance that each of 25 influences listed on a questionnaire had in making their specialty choice. Selected specialties were classified into three groups: noncontrollable lifestyle, controllable lifestyle, and surgery. (MLW)