Described are controversial aspects of the 1976 Health Professions Educational Assistance Act, emphasizing medical school opposition to provision requiring schools to admit third year American students from foreign medical schools in order to receive capitation funds. Principal provisions of the Act are outlined. (SL)

Presents suggestions for alleviating the problem of applicants submitting papers to several medical schools by having a central agency match applicants with highly preferred medical schools. (PEB)

President Carter's 1980 budget proposes to prevent an impending over-supply of doctors by completely eliminating funding that has been used by medical schools for nearly a decade to expand their enrollments. (BB)

As a last chance medical haven, Caribbean medical schools are increasingly sought by U.S. students. Federal and state investigations are being run on one of these, and two former students have filed suit. (BB)

Cites several examples of research studies in which medical as well as ethical considerations affected the treatments prescribed. The ethical versus the statistical aspects of drug testing are also discussed. (CP)

Federal support to medical schools has resulted in government coercion to change admissions policies in exchange for financial aid. Federal subsidies for tuition have been meager and accompanied by government legislation requiring the acceptance of an increased number of third year transferring students from generally inferior foreign programs.…

Examines the findings regarding the cost of medical education reported by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. (JR)

Analyzes 46 medical research papers on the effects of innovative versus standard surgical procedures on the health of patients. Results reveal that innovations generally reduce complications. The ethics of experimental surgery are also discussed. (CP)

Discusses a current reassessment of medical training that may lead to the first major overhaul in half a century of the system for evaluating, licensing, and certifying doctors in specialities. Granting of an unrestricted license will probably be moved from the internship period to the end of specialist training. (JR)

Medical schools are finally teaching about alcoholism, a disease implicated in 20-50 percent of hospital admissions and which is a problem in the medical profession itself. Recent discoveries on identifying/treating alcoholism have helped to change attitudes and lead to model problems for medical students at Johns Hopkins and Dartmouth. (DH)

Described is the new Medical College Admissions test which will be administered beginning spring 1977. The new test will take six hours to complete and will test science knowledge, analytical skills, science problem solving skills, and verbal relation of information skills on 363 items. (SL)

Discussed is a projected overabundance of physicians by 1990 and a possible cut in funding in medical schools because of this overabundance. Also discussed is the shortage of clinical investigators who are physicians because salaries for physicians are much higher than for clinical investigators. (DS)