Teaching English for specific purposes (ESP), such as Medical English, is especially impactful due to high student motivation and immediate real-world application. Medical professionals devote their careers to improving the health and lives of others. With English-language skills, medical professionals can further their own professional…

A short, intensive teacher training course for general practitioners is described, including its aims, context and content, and assessment of its effectiveness. Focus is on the need for training doctors with expertise in teaching, combined with an ability to assess patients' psychosocial as well as physical problems. (LBH)

An expanded concept of continuing medical education (CME) is reported that fills the needs of both physicians and mid-level practitioners (nurse practitioners or physician's assistants). The Family Practice Refresher Course sponsored by the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine and its evaluation are described. (LBH)

At the SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine the curriculum of the Department of Family Medicine requires that all sophomores spend eight half-days working with a family physician preceptor in his private practice and eight half-days in seminars. Program implementation, requirements, and evaluation are described. (LBH)

Four papers discuss how to: (1) help physicians under direction of a psychologist teach psychological material to other physicians; (2) introduce family practice teaching into residency programs; (3) teach developmental psychology to physicians; and (4) help psychologists and physicians understand and negotiate their different backgrounds and…