Principal features of Baylor's course are annually-revised lecture handouts, medically-oriented laboratory sessions with a manual written especially for the course, and clinical demonstrations of infectious disease. Improvement in student performance seems to be related to the course format, increased teaching proficiency, and allocations of hours…

Objectives, methods of instruction, and evaluation of a preclinical decision-making course are described. Objectives were for reading and writing clinical algorithms and clinical decision analysis. Taped interview problems are found a promising tool for measuring decision-making skills. (MSE)

The needs of physically and psychiatrically disabled people were identified, and seven content areas that relate to the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed by physicians were elaborated in a "core curriculum" for medical students. (MLW)

An educational curriculum for clinician-executives developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is described. Courses may be taken for graduate credit leading to a master's degree in preventive medicine/administrative medicine or for continuing medical education credit. (Author/MLW)

Man and His Environment is a course that teaches human behavior and preventive medicine to medical students, with multidisciplinary professionals, medical students, and institutions collaborating in its organization, delivery, and evaluation. Course content, instructional methods, student and course evaluation, and administrative organization are…