There is growing recognition of the need to reeducate clinically inactive physicians seeking to return to practice and in the facilitation of this return. Physicians seeking to return to practice face many challenges: maneuvering the various requirements of licensing, medical, and credentialing boards; finding an appropriate educational program to…

Ongoing continuing medical education is an essential component of life-long learning and can have a positive influence on patient outcomes. However, some evidence suggests that continuing medical education has not fulfilled its potential as a performance improvement (PI) tool, in part due to a paradigm of CME that has focused on the quantity of…

A national program to promote effective, mandatory, and comprehensive training at the residency level to prepare primary care pediatricians to serve handicapped children and families is described. A structured curriculum designed for a clinical rotation in developmental pediatrics is described. Results of subjective and objective evaluations of…

With the introduction of humanistic perspectives in the curricula of medical schools in recent years, the role of medical history in education warrants reassessment. Examines the reasons for giving medical students an historical perspective and presents a model of the program in use at the University of Wisconsin Medical School. (Editor/PG)

Describes the University of Arizona four-track postgraduate training program currently under development and evaluation which prepares the family practitioner, acute care physician, primary care-health care administrator/planner, and primary care educator. (Author/PG)

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 is the final report for a three-year contract in health manpower development. The contract, awarded to Howard University in 1969, was actuated in January 1969 and extended to August 1972. The contract period has been marked by a large variety of progressive activity and creation of programs. These include the development of an attractive…

The annotated and indexed bibliography contains over 120 citations of research and program reports from multiple health disciplines concerning rural health care delivery. Citations cover the period of January 1980 through July 1990, and are organized by state in which the program or research occurs. (MSE)

The University of Wisconsin Medical School began a class mentor program in 1985 utilizing five senior physician faculty members who attended courses as mentors through four years with the assigned class. Mentors shared practical experience about the subjects being taught. Program response was highly favorable. (GLR)

A 1989 conference on physician manpower issues facing rural communities in Washington, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho (WAMI) is reported, and its recommendations for both medical schools and graduate medical education are summarized. The conclusions are applicable to physician manpower development in other areas of the country. (Author/MSE)

The Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (New York City) program of preemployment urine toxicology examinations for beginning housestaff physicians has resulted in treatment for two physicians testing positive for illegal drugs. The program's primary purpose is to focus on substance abuse issues in graduate medical education. (Author/MSE)

The University of California, Los Angeles, medical school has developed and implemented, "Doctoring," a four-year interdisciplinary course sequence to prepare students to care for patients, families, and communities in a caring, humanistic, and competent manner. Each year has a special area of emphasis but with a cumulative approach to…

A three-hour workshop that succeeds in overcoming medical faculty's reluctance to participate in educationally relevant situations is described. The program's strength is seen in increased faculty sensitivity to limitations of their teaching approach and awareness of the role of their concept of teaching. Workshop weaknesses are also discussed.…

The evolution of a faculty development program for clinical medical teachers in a required ambulatory care clerkship in which students work at 20 different sites is described. The objective was to assist physicians teaching a new ambulatory clerkship, to practice a learner-centered approach to precepting rather than the traditional…