Ideological goals in contemporary Cuban undergraduate physician education include relating medical education more closely to broadly disseminated health care, teaching medicine in a wider social framework and less didactically, and reducing professional elitism. (Editor)

Poland has centralized academic and administrative control over the medical academies, combined the training of medical students with that of dental and pharmacy students, equalized admission ratios for men and women, and provided relatively generous stipends for its medical students. (Editor/PG)

These technical notes describe the methodology used in determining the costs of that part of the undergraduate medical education program not financed by contributed services or by income from research or clinical activity. (Author)

The program described provides a progression of combined didactic and clinical experiences in the behavioral sciences and in clinical psychiatry. Students completing the program are expected to have acquired a foundation of knowledge that is equivalent to one year of residency training in psychiatry. (Editor/PG)

Describes a six-week rotation program through hospital departments for undergraduate college students to assist participants to establish firm career goals. (PG)

Study shows anatomy students learned equally well in dissection and in prosection laboratory procedure; but time is saved in using prosection method. (IR)

The abilities to understand medical technology, to evaluate new devices and procedures, and to assess their effectiveness, reliability, costs, and risks in comparison with existing methods are discussed. A course in clinical biophysics offered at the State University of New York at Buffalo is described. (Author/MLW)

As emergency medicine became a specialty, it was realized that traditional training of physicians in urgent, emergent, and acute care problems was deficient. Surveys and studies demonstrate that the emergency medicine curricula in American medical schools remains at a minimum. (MLW)

Description of a program at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in neurosciences to aid students in diagnosing patients with neuromuscular problems. (PG)