The development and application of a complexity index to 29 clinical problems used in a new graduate curriculum is reported. The index uses five components of problem complexity: symptoms, physical signs and investigations, socioeconomic and behavioral factors, diagnoses, and management plans. (Author/MLW)

Medical educators nationwide are questioning the process that leads to the denial of the emotional side of medicine by its practitioners. Emotional dilemmas are often verbally suppressed by most students, but they surface in many ways, such as depression, insomnia, loss of appetite, and anxiety. (RM)

Described are controversial aspects of the 1976 Health Professions Educational Assistance Act, emphasizing medical school opposition to provision requiring schools to admit third year American students from foreign medical schools in order to receive capitation funds. Principal provisions of the Act are outlined. (SL)

A program of integrated teaching by consultants and general practitioners is described. The teaching took place in the hospitals used for the purpose by the Medical Faculty of the University of Birmingham. (Author)

Morning Report (MR) is a frequently held case conference in most Family Medicine (FM) residency programs among medical learners who discuss recent inpatient admissions before the day's care of patients. This study conducted a national survey of FM residency program directors to describe the roles of faculty and residents in facilitating MR.…

Purpose: This study represents the first reporting of aggregate data of a longitudinal study designed to identify correlations between medical student personality traits and type of residency, later selected. It is a multisite project involving four US medical schools over a period of nearly ten years. The current study sought to test the…

This report, fifth of a series on Academic Health Centers (AHCs), addresses the fundamental rationale of such centers: the education of the health care workforce. None of the missions of the 125 AHCs in the United States, medical schools and their closely affiliated hospitals and physician groups, is more important than the education of…

Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine began a new advising program called Professional Development Advising Teams (PDAT) in 1996. A small number of students (6 to 8) was grouped with 2 faculty members (medical school based and clinic based) and 1 peer mentor (an advanced year medical student) to make up 1 of 18 advising teams. This…

Four sources of motivation for first- and second-year medical students are desire for professional competence, intellectual satisfaction, success on tests, and the admiration of others. This article suggests way in which these desires could be made to strengthen, rather than oppose each other during the preclinical years. (Editor)

An Ohio State University medical student spends a month working with a New York Appalachian child development project (Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Developmental Services, Inc.). (FF)

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