In this volume the authors document examples of programmes/courses/activities that are designed intentionally to build students' capacity to be integrative thinkers and learners. In doing so they try to analyse and name the learning that is taking place, and so make it visible to the reader. The work is intended as a resource for all those…

Objective: The attitudes of medical students towards psychiatry and psychotherapy were examined considering the extent of their education, previous psychiatry experience, the evaluation of the course, their career intentions and socio-demographic variables. Methods: Five hundred and eight medical students in their second, fifth, ninth and tenth…

Objective: The authors examine the efficacy of a brief presentation to enhance clerkship student interest in child and adolescent psychiatry as a career choice. Method: Attitudes of students attending a brief presentation on the positive aspects of child psychiatry were compared with those of non-attenders. Results: Students who attended the…

Residents in pediatrics, internal medicine, and family practice were asked about career goals for the year following their residency and in five years. Information was obtained about their motives for career choices including humanitarian interests; intellectual motivation; service motives; and practical, personal, and financial considerations.…

Legal liability of medical students and residents can have significant consequences for clinical faculty members, the health care facility, and the educational institution. Issues and significant court cases related to the liability of students and residents in the health care setting are examined. (Author/MLW)

Medical educators seldom ascertain whether their teaching efforts have long-term effects. To assess the persistence of attitudes toward drug claims by industry, members of two medical classes in the pharmacology course at the University of Virginia School of Medicine were surveyed at graduation and again nine to ten years later. (Author/MLW)

Examines historical and recent trends in the proportions of women accepted into medical school, women residents and specialists, women who are medical school faculty, and women who are medical school department chairs and deans. Compares the progress of men and women faculty. (LZ)

Speech delivered at the Conference on Research in Medical Education, 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968).

Describes two complementary teaching initiatives that contribute to the development of professionalism in the medical academic environment: a resident-as-teacher program and an approach to faculty bedside teaching that mirrors and extends the lessons of the resident-as-teacher effect. (SLD)

There is little data on the smoking behaviour of the population of Austria. The available information hardly goes beyond some figures on the number of regular smokers and the amount of cigarettes consumed per person per year. Equally, statutory anti-smoking measures in Austria lag considerably behind those of other countries, especially the U.S.…

Although studies have begun to shed light on medical students' attitudes towards peer physical examination (PPE), they have been conducted at single sites, and have generally not examined changes in medical students' attitudes over time. Employing both cross-sectional and longitudinal designs, the current study examines medical students' attitudes…

When teaching and learning about alveolar ventilation with our class of 300 first-year medical students, we use four simple, inexpensive "models." The models, which encourage research-oriented learning and help our students to understand complex ideas, are distributed to the students before class. The students anticipate something new every day,…

The object here was to elaborate on the development, implementation, and evaluation of a sexuality course entitled "Principles of Healthy Sexuality." The goal of the educational process was for future medical professionals to be sensitized to sexuality issues and become comfortable with them both in their professional and personal lives. This…

Geriatric patients are at increased risk for complications from delirium or falls during hospitalization. Medical education, however, generally places little emphasis on the hazards of hospitalization for older inpatients. Geriatricians conducted a faculty development workshop for hospitalists about the hazards of hospitalization for geriatric…

Objectives: The ability to develop quality medical student exposures in child and adolescent psychiatry is critical to the professional development of these future physicians and to the growth of recruitment efforts into the field. This study identifies teaching perspectives among child and adolescent psychiatry faculty to determine whether there…