Author views medical education as changing from training doctors to be repairmen to their becoming maintenance and repairmen. (HS)

The Maternity Continuity Clinic, conducted by obstetrics faculty, helps students versed in basic physician skills to make an obstetrics-gynecology career choice. (IR)

Developed and tested by the Health Management Project at the MIT Sloan School of Management, this course was designed to provide a more accurate understanding of the relevance and usefulness of management education to physicians and to train physicians in some basic management skills. Its content and field tests are described. (LBH)

The community health clerkship at the University of Florida is 5 weeks of clinical rotation which provides experiences in community settings varying from preceptorships with family physicians to primary care responsibilities in a rural health center and a ghetto clinic. (Author)

An Independent Study Program (ISP) was created in the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1967 to provide educational options to foster self-reliant education for medical students. (Editor)

Discusses how the structure of medical education affects the emotional growth of the student and in turn how it affects patient care. (Author)

A study to ascertain how physicians evaluate their own training and knowledge of human sexuality and their ability to treat their patients' sexual problems showed a neglect of the subject in the formal medical education curriculum. (IR)

After training in psychiatry, medical students' attitudes toward mental illness changed to less traditional and restrictive, with increased ability to relate with the psychiatric patients. (IR)