Faculty development efforts have had varying success in changing the culture of a department or institution. In this paper, we describe a faculty development program using a residents as teachers (RATS) curriculum that we believe effected educational change in a department with a history of suboptimal student evaluations on the clerkship and an…

The success of implementing a screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment (SBIRT) program within a medical residency program for sustainability is contingent upon a well-crafted training curriculum that incorporates substance abuse education and clinical practice skills. The goal of the Howard University (HU) SBIRT program is to train…

This is the final report of the Student National Medical Association's tutorial and preparatory program aimed at increasing enrollment of minority students in medical schools. The first of six sections describes the program's activities in preparing minority students to take the New Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). The original proposal and…