Discusses and evaluates the addition of a sex education course to the medical school curriculum. (PG)

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)

Describes a sex education program for fifth-year medical students that included 24 hours of small group seminar with three dimensions: information, attitudes, and skills. (JT)

An elective weeked seminar offered by the Department of Community Medicine for first- and second-year students, has been developed at Michigan State. Its objectives are to identify and clarify personal sexual attitudes and values; to increase the ability to talk comfortably about sexual matters; and to discover and correct inadequacies or…

Review of the aims, basic precepts and successes of "The Fundamentals of Human Sex and Sex Education" course whose primary function is to teach future sex educators. (IR)

Efforts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to combat AIDS are reported. Health implications of the viral disease are summarized, along with economic costs, research achievements, the importance of education, and appropriate and workable solutions. (LB)

The relation of medical students' feelings about sex to their level of sexual knowledge, willingness to treat patients with sexual concerns, and participation in an elective sex education course was examined. Erotophobic students (those with negative feelings about sexuality) and erotophilic students (those with positive feelings about sexuality)…

Knowledge of sexual behavior, modifying attitudes that block understanding of sexuality, and developing skills for the evaluation and management of sexual problems were the objectives of a sex education program for medical students at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. (Editor/LBH)