Background: The aftermath of the 1910 Flexner report resulted in significant gaps in the structure of medical education. Experiential co-curricular opportunities can contribute to addressing these gaps. Purpose: To explore, from a holistic social constructionism perspective, the added value of a co-curricular program, designed and implemented…

The U.S. physician population lacks diversity, and this lack of diversity is reflected in the medical student population. Medical schools have implemented various types of programs to increase the diversity of their student population, and by extension, the physician population. A public Northeastern medical school implemented a postbaccalaureate…

I Ola Kohala is an educational pilot project that strengthens opportunities for middle and high school students in North Hawai?i to explore opportunities in higher education and health professions through strengthening cultural identity and civic responsibility. The program is also focused on delivering quality rural health education for health…

Context: Changes in health care and new theories of learning have prompted significant changes in medical education. Some US medical schools employ immersion learning in rural communities to increase the number of physicians who choose to practice in these areas. Founded in 1971, the rural physician associate program (RPAP) is a longitudinal…

Project CREATE was an initiative to strengthen undergraduate medical education in addictions. As part of a needs assessment, forty-six medical students at Ontario's five medical schools completed a bi-weekly, interactive web-based survey about addiction-related learning events. In all, 704 unique events were recorded, for an average of 16.7…

Context: Founded in 1971 with state funding to increase the number of primary care physicians in rural Minnesota, the Rural Physician Associate Program (RPAP) has graduated 1,175 students. Third-year medical students are assigned to primary care physicians in rural communities for 9 months where they experience the realities of rural practice with…

This paper describes development, implementation, and evaluation strategies of a longitudinal geriatric curriculum, the Senior Mentor Program (SMP). The rationale for exposing undergraduate medical students to healthy, community-dwelling older adults is to use the relationship and activities as vehicles for improving knowledge of aging and…

Once admitted to the regular, four-year doctor of medicine program, students with Ph.D science degress may apply to the Medical Science Training Placement and Curriculum Committee at the Washington University School of Medicine for approval to complete medical school in three years. The program is described. (MLW)

Describes the use of behavioral techniques in the teaching of interviewing skills to medical students in one and one-half-hour lecture-demonstrations involving role play and discrimination training. (JT)

WAMI stands for Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho, for better training of their medical students, and for more doctors in their rural counties. (Editor)

The effectiveness of a cost containment curriculum integrated into a required 6-week community health-primary care clerkship at Brown University is described. A computerized patient management problem was administered to half the students in order to assess its discrete effect on the students. (MLW)

A survey of 1960-75 graduates of the Medical Residency Program of Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y., to obtain opinions concerning the strengths and weaknesses of their training and their opinions on curricular changes designed to prepare residents better for roles as general internists is discussed. (Author/MLW)

A university-affiliated project provides programmatic and administrative support for postgraduate training in clinical genetics and developmental disabilities. The multidisciplinary approach is effective for conjoint training for physicians, genetic associates, and social workers. Short-term training is provided for students in social work, child…

The Dartmouth Medical school initiated a course to meet the needs of the future physician who would be able to critique the scientific basis of medicine. For physicians, clinically relevant problems might require computer-assisted decision analysis, expert systems, statistical computing, or relational database development. (MLW)