Presents suggestions for alleviating the problem of applicants submitting papers to several medical schools by having a central agency match applicants with highly preferred medical schools. (PEB)

The study reported suggests that an incorrect assumption has been made in the interpretation of Eron's findings leading to the conclusion that medical students become less socially concerned as they approach graduation. The present data indicate that the opposite is the case. (Editor)

In an attempt to systematize the teaching of interviewing, all verbal responses in interactions between medical students and patients were subsumed under 5 basic categories: evaluative, hostile, reassuring, probing, and understanding. It was demonstrated that students not only could recognize understanding responses but also could use them in…

Most students considered the requirement to memorize the physical examination routine useful in that they "knew what to do next" when examining a patient. (Author/KE)

The data suggest that personal development can be encouraged and traditional training relationships rather radically realigned while maintaining the quality of patient care and enhancing the learning of medical knowledge. (Author/KE)

After observing the models, students can exhibit the interviewing skills by role-playing or by the actual performance of an interview. (Author/KE)

Presidential address delivered at the annual meeting of the Assoc. of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, Nov. 1, 1968).

A theory is discussed in which observed performance ratings are derived from the distance between a rater reference point and subject performance point located on a postulated equal-interval scale and a postulated s-shaped rater characteristic curve, operationalized as the normal ogive. Least-squares estimates of rater (nR=47, 31, and 29) and…

Computers are intrinsically fascinating to students once they learn what materials are available and become familiar with working on the terminals. The Plato Health Science Network contains an extensive catalog of lessons of interest to medical students and is available to anyone on request; this has resulted in several hundred hours per week of…

THE METHODS USED BY PHYSICIANS IN THE SOLUTION OF CLINICAL PROBLEMS WERE STUDIED. THIS WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY ANALYZING THE TYPE AND SEQUENCE OF QUESTIONS ASKED BY THE PHYSICIAN IN THE PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING A PATIENT'S CONDITION. SEVEN TESTS WERE DESIGNED, TWO OF WHICH WERE THOROUGHLY EXPLORED. THESE TWO TESTS WERE ADMINISTERED SIMULTANEOUSLY TO…

THIS PROJECT ASSESSED THE RELATIVE SKILLS OF PRACTICING PHYSICIANS IN SOLVING DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT PROBLEMS PRESENTED IN A CONFERENCE FORMAT BEFORE AND AFTER TWO-WAY RADIO INSTRUCTION. TEST RETEST RELIABILITY DATA FOR CORRECT DIAGNOSES YIELDED SIGNIFICANT CHANGES BEFORE AND AFTER INSTRUCTION. SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES IN PHYSICIAN CHARACTERISTICS…

Investigated were factors for predicting success of students of veterinary medicine and science at Purdue University. All males enrolled as beginning students in the fall classes of 1959 through 1965 were analyzed. Student records and questionnaires were employed to gather information on academic records and demographic and non-demographic…

In this 1975 Oration of the Society for Health and Human Values, the author, an international medical educator, reviews the changing attitudes to human values in medical education as experienced at the London Hospital Medical College. Proposed is a broad, general approach to the whole patient, socially and behaviorally as well as biologically and…

Different kinds of students experience the medical school environment in different ways, pay attention to different things, perceive the same events in different ways, and consequently make various kinds of career commitments. Who is affected by what kinds of experience to become what kind of physician? The taxonomic method used identifies…

This analysis of changing trends in medical education demonstrates that, despite differences in methodology, current problems and future directions are strikingly similar throughout the world. Based on the 1969 International Macy Conference on Changing Patterns in Medical Education in the World, the book includes reports from leading medical…