The data summarized comprise an interim report on trends in medical school curriculum as of 1968. (IR)

Based on a paper delivered at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in November 1969. (IR)

Discusses the pressures on premedical students and the necessity to increase the time and content flexibility of the medical curriculum to facilitate admission of students with diverse backgrounds. (Editor/PG)

Instead of compromising aspects of the curriculum to meet requirements of systematic experimental designs, the authors suggest development of representative curricular research. Such designs require the development of population validity, ecological validity, and referent generality. Examples are given from health-maintenance-organization-based…

The design and implementation of the revised format of the freshman behavioral science course at Tulane University School of Medicine is described. The methods of evaluation utilized and the data from the first class of medical students to participate in the new curriculum are discussed. (Author/MLW)

Reports a survey study in which basic science courses were rated according to relevance. Notes approaches for making the anatomy disciplines more relevant because results showed them of lowest relevancy compared with physiology, pathology, and pharmacology which were rated of highest relevance and with biochemistry and microbiology which fell…

During the past 20 years the author has visited almost half of all the American medical schools, usually as a consultant on curriculum and instruction. Nine curricular problems are described in medical terms having to do with instructional change, curriculum evaluation, articulation between related segments, etc. (Author/LBH)

In a replication of a Mount Sinai School of Medicine study, the authors at Texas Tech University School of Medicine found that gross anatomy should be considered a very relevant subject in a medical student's education and that other disciplines of anatomy should be reevaluated to increase their relevancy. Earlier findings did not find the…

Concern over student opinion questionnaires expressing widespread dissatisfaction with the basic science curriculum of the University of Texas Medical Branch prompted efforts to improve the curriculum. With the help of the University's Office of Research in Medical Education, improvements were made that increased student satisfaction and improved…

Describes a new 4-semester chemistry-biochemistry sequence, an integration and condensation of the traditional 5-semester sequence of general chemistry, organic chemistry, and medical biological chemistry, which has been sufficiently successful at the University of Michigan to be worthy of consideration as a component of regular premedical-medical…

To treat the patient as a whole person, the medical student first must be treated as a whole person. This can be accomplished through the humanities, although the teaching method is important. (LBH)

The behavioral science course at Wright State University School of Medicine includes workshops. The hour-long workshops are student-selected and cover a variety of clinically relevant behavioral science topics. (MLW)