Underlying causes and potential remedies for widespread cheating and sabotage of laboratory experiments committed by premedical students in a variety of institutions are discussed. (LBH)

American medical schools could become the agents of health reform--if the federal government, the colleges, and the practitioners, resolve their differences. (Editor)

The University of Miami School of Medicine offers a special 24-month intensive program that is developing a new breed of physician-scientists. It is a parallel and coordinated but separate activity, enrolling only students who have already earned a PhD. Their success has firmly established the PhD-to-MD program as a second medical curriculum. (LBH)

This article notes that recent changes in medical schools, due to funding trends and decreased demand for specialist services, have prompted dramatic changes in roles and rewards of faculty. Strategies for managing the changes are outlined for four areas: promotion and tenure, moving toward collective thinking, refining institutional mission and…

Second in a series of articles on the federal involvement in education, this article deals with the funding and control of academic research and biomedicine. Emphasis is on the relationship between government funding and government intervention, particularly in research universities and medical schools. (LBH)

Exploding medical delivery costs and monopolistic practices have brought wide public disenchantment with the American way of healing. Medical school admission practices, more than any other single factor, influence the demography and therefore the availability of health care in the U.S. (Editor/LBH)

A compilation of America's best professional schools based on data from a survey of deans in the field. (PG)

The Bakke case before the Supreme Court raises questions far beyond the obvious ones about admissions policy. It may be a turning point in the history of American race relations. (Editor/LBH)

A Johns Hopkins School of Medicine symposium on Women Physicians in Contemporary Society is summarized. Although a growing number of women are entering the profession, they are particularly vulnerable to the competing pressures of career, marriage, and child care. (JMF)

The College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University challenges conventional health care training on every level. Students are far more diverse than in the usual medical school and follow a curriculum emphasizing small-group learning, independent study, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and direct contact with patients. (LBH)

Excerpts from interviews with Black students and graduates from Harvard Law and Medical Schools reveal the concern of these minority professionals as representatives of the Black community. Their experiences in graduate school and later in their professions are described. (JMF)