A program designed to introduce residents and medical students to community resources for children and increase their knowledge of the factors affecting children's development is described. Trainees spend approximately one-third of their time in program activities that involve 25 community agencies. (Author/MLW)

The impact of the present changing environment on medical education is considered. Four major components of medical education are influenced by environmental change: the setting (hospital inpatient floors), the patients, the teachers, and way teaching is conducted. Educational goals are defined and recommendations for improving teaching are…

Data from a longitudinal study of Jefferson Medical College graduates were analyzed to determine levels of clinical competence in the first postgraduate year and relationships between postgraduate ratings and performance during medical school. It is concluded that in a substantial number of cases good and poor performance in the first postgraduate…

A study compared the performance of 232 Brown University (Rhode Island) medical graduates on senior-year examinations in clinical skills examinations and during residencies, as evaluated by their residency directors. Results indicated a strong correlation between the two evaluations, suggesting that the performance-based undergraduate assessments,…

Paper delivered to the Council of Academic Societies at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968).

Figure drawings obtained while subjects were in medical school were scored using two scales: Sophistication-of-Body-Concept, and Conventionality/deviancy of the drawings. Subjects were classified into one of 11 health outcome categories plus a "healthy" category. Several significant differences among groups were noted with respect to…

Significant changes in attitudes occurred over a three-year period among pediatric residents who had close association with a pediatric nurse practitioner (PNP) in their residency program. Residents felt that the PNP contributed to the reduction of health care costs and that they should have an expanded role. (Author/MLW)

This paper shows that a substantial degree of invariance can be attained with an examination not explicitly designed to do so, provides an example of how invariance can be demonstrated through plots, and dispels misconceptions concerning the rigidity of the definition of invariance. Responses of 177 examinees to 94 items of a final examination…

The doctor-patient relationship is one which medical educators are presently stressing due to the criticism that modern doctors are impersonal and lack warmth. (HS)

Performed an analysis of the root causes of events involving graduate medical trainees that were recorded in hospital-based near-miss reporting systems. Classified root causes using the Eindhoven Classification Model, medical version. Found lack of knowledge and organizational causes at root of near-miss incidents. Concluded that root cause…

Describes several successful community-oriented primary care (COPC) projects conducted by the Health Partners Family Practice Residency Program and outlines eight lessons learned from these projects. The experiences of these projects show that COPC development is a long and slow process that provides many rewards during implementation. (SLD)