For 9 weeks during the summer 88 medical students and 20 student nurses worked under the direction of private physicians and public health agencies in Appalachia. Excerpts from the students' reports are contained. (YP)

Paper presented at Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968).

The use of a 20-headed multi-viewing microscope, developed at Wright State University School of Medicine, is described. The pathology faculty and medical students were asked to evaluate the usefulness of five teaching/learning devices used in the pathology program. (MLW)

Basic science courses that emphasize relationships between behavior and health have been developed at several medical schools. Surveys of students who took these courses indicated that they were interested in the psychosocial aspects of medicine. These data deny the stereotype of the medical student who is biased against behavioral science. (CS)

Students from the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and faculty members and pediatric residents from the Children's Hospital National Medical Center developed a new curriculum for the third-year pediatric clerkship. Students were asked to complete a log and check the appropriate learning activity. (MLW)

Third-year medical students at Mount Sinai School of Medicine participated in a year-long survey that included self-administered questionnaires to ascertain the frequency and duration of the symptoms of minor illnesses. A significant association between the illness rate and the pediatric clerkship was documented. (Author/MLW)

The 1970s saw a significant increase in the number and proportion of women in U.S. medical schools that resulted in a more equal distribution of women students throughout all medical schools. Female enrollment increased from 9.1 percent of the total to 26.2 percent. (Author/MSE)

A teaching eye model that allows the medical student to learn the hand-eye coordination and associated thinking patterns that allow for a more sophisticated use of the ophthalmoscope is described. The eye teaching model attempted to simulate the features found in the eye of a real patient. (MLW)

Points out the positive dimensions of protests by hospitalized children and adolescents with chronic health problems and indicates how group discussion can increase reciprocal understanding of the needs and concerns of patients and doctors. (Author/RH)

Personality characteristics of entering women medical students, as determined by their responses to the Omnibus Personality Inventory and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, were studied and found to be similar over the past decade. Reasons for the difficulties that women students express in finding role models are suggested.…

The nature and direction of changes in empathy as measured by Hogan's empathy scale were explored over time for medical students in the class of 1979 at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine. Results indicated that empathy scores declined slightly over time and were unrelated to academic performance. (Author/MLW)

An examination to evaluate prescription writing was administered to a group of pediatric house officers and faculty at the University of Arizona. The data indicate that prescription writing should be taught to house officers, and that the therapeutic knowledge of beginning pediatric interns cannot be assumed to be adequate. (Author/MLW)

A study to assess the interrelationships of first-year medical students' allocation of time to learning, leisure, and necessary personal activities with their self-reported coping behavior is described. The findings support the interpretation that students allocating more time during the week tend to cope more adequately.

Recent research has shown that academic choice and achievement may be partly a function of the student's standing on the field dependence/independence cognitive style dimension. The results of two longitudinal studies suggest that information about field dependence/independence may be of value for student guidance in the medical setting. (Author)