Policies and guidelines have been established for departmental reviews, which are a means of assessing quality in administrative and academic functions. Academic and administrative review procedures at the University of Arizona College of Medicine are described and their reception by faculty discussed. (Author/LBH)

To gather baseline data about the employment characteristics of departmental chairmen, this investigation measured how many years medical school faculty members serve as chairmen. It traced the chairmen's names for eight departments of 86 medical schools during 1954 through 1975. Findings are reported in terms of nonchairmen years, initital…

Presents an operational academic department designed to meet the existing and anticipated requirements for scholarship and service in the clinical laboratories at a university. (Editor/PG)

As medical centers assume responsibilities in addition to their primary mission of educating students seeking the MD degree, provision for expanding their component academic departments must be made. (Editor/IR)

The use of the Delphi technique is demonstrated in conjunction with activity analysis to obtain consensus on and clarity of objectives and activities of full-time members of an academic medical department. The results show which activities contributed to the department objectives and which areas have a divergence of objectives. (Author/LBH)

Liaison between departments and disciplines has been achieved at the University of Minnesota, where the teaching of the basics of psychiatry relating to medical practice has been the responsibility of the faculty of the Department of Medicine. Benefits to staff and residents are discussed. (LBH)

Plan developed by University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine to teach students the relationship between pre clinical sciences and the practice of medicine. (IR)

Departments of preventive medicine can survive through unity, which can be achieved through majority agreement on a new and specific definition of preventive medicine. A definition is proposed that is based on a review and analysis of recent progress in the prevention of the major causes of mortality. (MLW)

Cancer centers have evolved several types of administrative structures, the most successful using some modification of a matrix system with delegation of significant administrative authority to the center. The author suggests implications for other multidisciplinary centers which find themselves in conflict with traditional discipline…

A questionnaire was developed to assess medical students and faculty with respect to several dimensions of their role expectations and perceived role enactments with each other. A comparison of mean scores on each of nine dimensions for faculty members from five departments in one medical school revealed significant differences on six dimensions.…

House medical staff of the University of California, Davis, Medical Center were administered a questionnaire to determine their knowledge of relevant medical-legal principles. Responses from 111 house staff indicated that pediatrics, physical medicine, and rehabilitation staff confronted more medical-legal issues than pathology staff. (SW)

A modified systems program has been developed at the University of Ottowa that incorporates advantages of the systems approach into whole-class teaching without increasing demands on staff. A total of 387 lecture and laboratory hours previously assigned to organ pathology and clinical departments are allocated to committees representing 12…

A set of departmental promotion guidelines ensure that medical faculty understand what is expected and what will be evaluated when promotion is considered. An approach to setting faculty evaluation standards, used at Cornell University Medical College Department of Psychiatry, and its application to primary areas of faculty work are outlined.…

Occupational and environmental health programs are beginning to be developed in many medical schools. The attitudes of medical school deans on their past experiences, current plans, and thoughts for the future for occupational and environmental health were surveyed and are described. (MLW)