A study of physician migration out of the medical school's state showed that a state's ability to retain graduates to practice there is related to physician and state characteristics. The traditional assumption that state aid to medical schools helps provide physicians for the state may be less compelling today. (Author/MSE)

The aloofness of those in the medical schools from general faculty and students and the still narrow education of medical students are considered to be among the causes of the deep problems facing modern medicine. The current state of American medicine is assessed in this regard. (Author/LBH)

Physicians' decisions on where to locate after they completed their training were examined by determining where a state's practicing physicians came from and whether physicians who are trained in a state practice in that state. A positive correlation between location of training and location of practice was indicated. (Author/MLW)

An evaluation instrument was used at the University of Washington and several affiliated schools to examine the differential effects of similar training in medical interviewing on students taught at different locations. The results indicate that similar training at different locations resulted in substantially identical posttest scores. (JMD)

An AAMC survey of American medical schools indicates that 34 percent have specific programs underway or planned to teach health care cost containment. The majority were introduced during the last two years; the costs are fairly modest. Further activities might be enhanced by development of a program primer and the organization of workshops.…

A study of 112 medical education networks--medical schools and their associated hospitals--is reported. The balance between the numbers and sources of U.S. graduates who entered first-year residencies in each speciality in the hospitals of each network and the kinds and locations of the residencies obtained by graduates from each school was…

A survey of second-year medical students at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn was conducted to obtain their views of the surrounding community, which has been transformed from a middle class to a poverty neighborhood. The respondents expressed concern about crime, pollution, and crowding. (Author/JMD)

The association of rural or urban background with choice of medical practice location was investigated in two time periods, 1950-1955 and 1963-1968, using the alumni of the Medical College of Wisconsin. High school location, place of birth, and place of internship were found to be significantly associated with practice location. (Author/JMD)