Significant changes in attitudes occurred over a three-year period among pediatric residents who had close association with a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in their residency program. Residents felt that the PNP contributed to the reduction of health care costs and that they should have an expanded role. (Author/MLW)

After training in psychiatry, medical students' attitudes toward mental illness changed to less traditional and restrictive, with increased ability to relate with the psychiatric patients. (IR)

A study of medical students at the University of Miami indicated that the students underwent major changes in their attitudes toward learning during their first year of medical school. Many students felt the need to focus exclusively on the required curriculum rather than pursuing interests for their own sake. (MLW)

A questionnaire survey at one medical school indicated that seniors viewed the elderly more positively than did freshmen in such areas as productivity, social significance, and sexuality. Overall results suggest that attitudes toward the elderly are becoming more favorable in society in general and in medical schools in particular. (Author/LB)

A program integrating cost awareness--a perspective balancing the physician's ethical obligations to individual patients with duties to the society that pays medical costs--into major required courses of the four-year medical curriculum addresses the social aspects of medical care, patient care strategy, resource utilization, and the legal system…

This study supports the validity of a Motivation Scale developed for student participants' rating of quality of short course presentations. (IR)

A study to assess the impact of laboratory courses in medical school on subsequent University of Iowa house staff test use, and to assess the influence of attitudinal factors on test use patterns is reported. Physician preferences for style, format, and timing of laboratory training sessions are examined. (MSE)

Findings suggest that the medical school environment fosters cynicism in medical students and that attitude changes induced by participation in special programs are temporary at best unless supported and reinforced by the total medical school environment. The importance of adequate role models throughout medical school are emphasized. (Editor/PG)

The systematic evaluation of a curriculum designed to improve the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and clinical judgment of pediatric residents with regard to young handicapped children and their families is described. The curriculum increased the knowledge of various aspects of handicapping conditions and the tendency to characterize the children's…

Personality changes in a sample of 49 women physicians were measured by psychological tests and interview procedures. They suggested greater effectiveness in work and achievements, more introspection, more certainty about goals, more awareness and acceptance of traditional role demands, and less striving for success and need to impress others.…

The potential of the Area Health Education System to influence physician distribution is examined as reflected by a "core" surginal experience in a remote site of approximately 20,000 population. Some favorable attitudinal alterations were noted. (Editor/LBH)

Systematic collaborative research is needed to find ways to extend community comprehensive health care more equitably to all citizens. (IR)

Twenty residents in two family practice programs received orientation including behavioral sciences. Their attitudes changed favorably toward behavioral sciences. The test developed for the study is being refined and may later be used for curriculum development relating to attitude change. (MSE)

A course in oncology for freshman medical students at the Medical College of Pennsylvania is discussed. It is thought that appropriate training of medical students appears to lead to more positive attitudes toward cancer, but many of these efforts have been directed to groups at later stages of medical education. (MLW)

Sixty-seven third-year medical students at the University of Ottawa were interviewed at the beginning and end of a month-long clerkship in psychiatry in order to determine the potential for negative postclerkship attitudes and the extent to which they can be modified. The importance of identifying vulnerable students is emphasized. (Author/LBH)