Discusses and evaluates the addition of a sex education course to the medical school curriculum. (PG)

Describes a course designed to provide the student with the necessary motor skills and attitudes to treat the actely ill. (HS)

The nature and extent of cost containment education in medical schools in England, Scotland, and Wales were surveyed in 1982. The departments and number of formal courses at each medical school that covered cost containment topics were determined, and the data were compared to those of surveys in U.S. medical schools.

To assist faculty involved in cancer education in various courses in the curriculum, rather than instituting a new course in oncology, a method was developed for identifying and assessing cancer-related content (a clinical clerk attended lectures, interviewed instructors, reviewed syllibi etc.) and a comprehensive description was produced and…

Using the study of the history of medicine as a frame of reference, conceptualized in conjunction with past and current case material, the medical student can proceed upon a critique of assumptions about the role of medicine in society and explore his commitment in the course "Medical Relevancy" at the State University of New York…

At the University of Minnesota Medical School a course, Introduction to Clinical Medicine, introduces communication skills; develops interview skills consistent with students' personality, their role as medical students, and the patients' needs; assists students in becoming comfortable as medical students in the hospital setting; and teaches them…

Behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine have been taught in terms of direct applicability to the primary care physician's practice with the "behavioral system" providing the point of integration for a general organ system approach. (MLW)

A method to assist in curriculum planning and its application at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine is presented. Content elements appropriate for inclusion in a family medicine curriculum for medical students are identified. Priorities were assigned to content elements. (Author/MLW)