Information about women and members of minority groups serving on U.S. medical school faculties is summarized, based on an updating of a 1976 report of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The data show that salaried faculty members have increased by 16 percent since 1975 but the ethnic distribution and participation of women has remained…

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)

The factors involved in the decisions of physicians to locate in Rockford, IL were examined. Questions were asked concerning faculty status, factors influencing practice location decisions, and perceived advantages of association with a medical education center. The medical education center was an important secondary factor. (Author/MLW)

Five groups of medical schools are used to describe the relationship between the type of institution where a physician serves as a full-time faculty member and the type of institution where the M.D. degree was awarded. Research schools contribute more graduates to U.S. faculties. (Author/MLW)

Geriatric content in a medical school curriculum was assayed by surveying faculty course directors and students about course content, by conducting an independent review of course content, and by analyzing the content of course examinations. The students' assessments of geriatric content were found to be not valid. (Author/MLW)

The relation between society and its universities and the balance among the various roles of the universities have not been stable, and tenure policies will also continue to change. Institutional leadership must be aware of this and of the essential plasticity of tenure. (Author/MSE)

A statistical measure of user satisfaction among medical school faculty members was undertaken which found that such libraries tend to develop techniques of storage, retrieval, and dissemination of medical information without benefit of current research into the real needs of faculties and researchers. (Author/MLW)

A study of 1980 medical school faculties, based on faculty statistics on the Faculty Roster System of the Association of American Medical Colleges, is discussed. Higher participation of women physicians on medical school faculties than male physicians relative to the numbers of each sex in graduating classes is reported. (Author/MLW)

Results of a national survey concerning medical school policies for employing nontenured clinician-educator faculty, the titles given to faculty members in these tracks, and special features of employment are presented. (MSE)

Discussions with physicians at Loyola University and the University of Chicago medical schools about faculty practice plans are described. Interviews disclosed a desire for professional goals to be in balance with the institution's goals. (Author/MLW)

The establishment and evolution of the clinician-educator faculty track at the University of Pennsylvania provides a case study of a process taking place in many medical schools to meet the need for nontenured full-time faculty appointments. (Author/MLW)

Patterns of medical school alumni who choose to teach in their own or other medical schools, rather than practice medicine, are examined. Schools that serve as major faculty sources are ranked and percentages are given of graduates teaching at their own schools of graduation and at other schools. (MSE)

The Association of American Medical Colleges identified problems regarding medical school faculty clinical practice in the views of faculty members and administrators in academic medical centers. Balancing faculty time among teaching, research, and service was most frequently mentioned. (Author/MLW)

A residency program in a health maintenance organization in Northern California is described and compared with other graduate medical programs. Included are discussions of curriculum development, faculty, funding, medical school affiliation, and the role of HMOs in graduate training. (Author/MSE)

The faculty of the human behavior course at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, when evaluated by their students, received high ratings. It is hypothesized that the success of these teachers comes from their ability to create an atmosphere that encourages student participation in discussion groups regardless of topic. (MLW)