Established to initiate innovative, creative communication channels among medical schools in Michigan, the Michigan Medical Schools Council of Deans encourages cooperative efforts in program areas and long-range planning. This article describes recent projects and activities of the Council which has a full-time paid staff. (JT)

Traces the history and lists the activities of the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges. (Author)

The way in which interinstitutional cooperation was used to enable a private medical college and public community college to make effective use of their mutual interests in developing an education program is described.

The College of St. Thomas and St. Paul Ramsey Hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, instituted in the fall of 1975 a cooperative program for premedical students that encompassed a volunteer program during the school semester and a Nursing Assistant Training Program during the college's interim period. The benefits of this program are described. (LBH)

A relationship between the medical schools of Chiang Mai University and the University of Illinois, part of a national involvement in Thailand's socioeconomic development, is analyzed. Antecedents, activities, outcomes, and problems are reviewed with emphasis on need for sound training, energy, adaptability, and investment of years. (JT)

Since 1972 Michigan State University College of Human Medicine has participated with community hospitals and practicing physicians in a number of cities to provide surgical clerkship experiences for its students. The new role of a full-time community-based university surgeon to facilitate this program is described. (Author/LBH)

The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Austin College cooperated in an experimental project to assess the quality and readiness of premedical students for medical schools and careers. The project and assessment process were mutually beneficial and it is hoped that they will be useful to those involved in career guidance. (LBH)

An interinstitutional project to develop a self-instructional course in international health is described, including the rationale for the project and the operating procedures used to produce course materials. A field trial is also reported and recommendations for materials development and utilization are given. (Author/LBH)

A four-week clerkship in community medicine is a requirement for all third-year students at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. An important feature of the program is the wide variety of settings available to students, including the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst, which is described. (LBH)

Each unique business of the academic medical center--patient care, education, and research--must be managed with regard for the others, but first needs to be operated for its own primary goal. Ten principles are suggested that recognize the businesses, define potential problems, set tasks, and provide organizational means for resolving conflict.…

Although a substantial portion of hospital beds are in institutions that are in multiple hospital systems, the possible benefits to be gained through participation in such systems do not appear to be of sufficient magnitude to either core teaching hospitals or their parent universities to persuade them to join or form a multiple system.…

The "one-and-two" program involves a larger teaching hospital for the first year and a smaller community hospital for the second and third years of a residency. Advantages are described, along with the need for close cooperation of faculty and staff of both hospitals. (LBH)

A questionnaire was sent to the 47 directors of medical education (DMEs) in metropolitan Chicago teaching hospitals to determine the effect of PL-94-484. Findings are reported on improvement in the quality of foreign medical graduates and of residency programs, efforts at medical school affiliation, and availability of residency programs. (L BH)

The Chesapeake Health Plan, a Baltimore-based health maintenance organization (HMO), works cooperatively with Baltimore City Hospitals, a teaching affiliate of Johns Hopkins University. Their mutual involvement includes a quality evaluation program of the HMO. The program incorporates peer review and focuses on prevention or reduction of…

An experimental health-care delivery and teaching model, the health department-medical school affiliation, is described. Its conceptual basis and the affiliation agreement are reviewed and its impact is likened to that of the medical school-teaching hospital affiliation. The affiliation between the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department and…