Those responsible for the health services of a country are concerned above all with the quantity and quality of the young physicians who graduate from the medical schools. Examinations of medical students provide medical teachers with feedback as to the quality of their students. This document presents a review of present examination practice in…

This document, as a supplement to the final report of the Orthopaedic Training Study, presents a discussion of the rationale behind the implementation of a laboratory course in psychomotor skills development for medical students. Medical educators examined resident training in terms of 3 components of cognitive elements of learning: cognitive,…

This document, as a supplement to the final report of the Orthopaedic Training Study, contains the documents considered to be important in providing the background for the study. The materials are organized into four major areas: initial correspondence, instrumentation, special reports, and psychomotor skills. See also HE 003 275 and HE 003 276.…

The stability of the structure underlying a fourteen item rating scale (the In-Training Evaluation Report) when completed on two different groups of medical candidates was investigated at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. In addition the relationship between the rating scale score and scores on other measures such as multiple…

The Arizona Clinical Interview Rating Scale is examined for construct validity as a instrument to evaluate the interviewing techniques of medical students. Evidence was gathered in the areas of convergent and discriminant validity, sensitivity to change, internal consistency, and objectivity. (Author)

The Clark-Trow typology of educational orientations proves effective in predicting personality differences among the vocational, academic, and collegiate types even when it is used with a sample of students having a common career goal, in this case, medicine. Faculty and administrators can use this typology to study student values. (Author)

Obstetric patients rated the skills and assessed the roles of students caring for them during a clinical clerkship. They rated skills and attitudes high, generally, with lower ratings for their ability to answer questions and preparation to participate in care. Most felt students improved their care, primarily in supportive ways. (Author/MSE)

A procedure derived from classical test theory analyzes course grades and report results to assess third-year clerkships at a midwestern medical school. The procedure is sensitive to a large range of characteristics of the courses and is a promising supplement to student course evaluations in studying curriculum change. (SLD)

A study to develop an easy-to-use prediction rule that would identify students at risk for failing the National Board of Medical Examiners Part I examination is reported. The predictors were limited to the students' academic performance in medical school. (MLW)

Surveyed anatomy texts currently in use in a major western medical school. In text sections dealing with standard (nongender-specific) anatomy, male subjects were shown in 64 percent of the illustrations in which gender was discernible, females in ll percent, and gender-neutral representations, 25 percent. Females and males were represented…

The development and use of a restricted list of drugs in the medical pharmacology course at the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine are described. The list contained 60 percent fewer drugs than had been taught in the course in prior years. (Author/MLW)

The present article is an attempt to indicate what the social sciences could contribute to the education of medical students. (Author)

Case Western Reserve University has been using senior medical students (SMS) as preceptors for first-year students since 1971. The responses of freshmen students, the SMS preceptors, and the faculty to the substitution of faculty members by several SMS's in clinical science are described. (LBH)

The writer describes a site visit to the teaching hospital of a major American medical school, part of the Carnegie Foundation's ten-year program of research on how lawyers, engineers, clergy, school teachers, nurses, and physicians are taught and how they learn. Of particular note to Schulman was an exercise known as "M&M" (Morbidity and…

The standardized patient (SP) examination is used in a majority of medical schools to test clinical skills. This exam usually yields both numerical ratings of clinical skill and narrative comments by patients or observers, yet most empirical studies of SP assessment focus on the numerical ratings only. This study analyzes the comments on a recent…