The format for teaching interviewing to second-year medical students at the University of Washington School of Medicine consists of 7 weekly meetings with a faculty member during which a videotape of a patient-student interview is reviewed and discussed by an ongoing group of medical students. (Author/PG)

Describes a program of teaching medical students in a university health maintenance organization (HMO). Lists program goals and discusses the experience of students and patients in relationship to those in more traditional university teaching clinics. (JT)

An assessment of the clinical nutritional knowledge of third- and fourth-year medical students and practicing physicians revealed that overall nutritional knowledge is modest and that knowledge is highest among topics which have received the most publicity in the popular press. Methodology and specific findings are included. (JT)

Describes a test, entitled Understanding Alcoholism, intended to serve as an educational or measurement instrument (or both) for use in the training of physicians. The test directly exposes many controversial aspects of alcoholism to the student at a time when his attitudes toward this disorder are being shaped. (Authors/JT)

Scores on the four subtests of the old Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) and the six subtests of the new edition (1978) were factor analyzed. Scores were derived from similar groups of applicants. Two-factors, verbal-general information and science-quantitative, known from previous factorial studies of the old MCAT, emerged again. Five of the…

National Library of Medicine (NLM) Literature Searches are selected computer-generated bibliographies produced by the Library's Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System (MEDLARS). Selection is made on the basis of a significant current interest of the subject matter to a substantial audience of health professionals. Each Literature Search…

This document investigates whether medical education should be subsidized by federal funds. The first chapter discusses the growing debate over medical school financing. Chapter two reviews subsidies, equity, and social welfare. Chapter three gives four rationales for public subsidies, including market structure, slipovers, inappropriate prices,…

The literature on medical education does not contain many studies directly concerning ATI (Aptitude-Treatment Interaction) or more broadly TTI (Trait-Treatment Interaction), in spite of the great many studies on the characteristics of medical students. Nevertheless, a project at Michigan State University was begun in which an entry profile of all…

In order to accumulate data on foreign medical students in the Americas, medical schools of the member countries of the Pan American Health Organization region of the World Health Organization were surveyed to acquire data on their student enrollments by country of origin, sex, and year of study for the 1971-72 academic year. A tabular…

This book contains proceedings of a colloquium convened to discuss the reform of medical education, specifically student pressures for such reform. The participants included students and faculty from 11 countries. Papers were presented and followed by panel discussions. The topics covered reviews and analyses of medical education in Latin America,…

This article discusses how the Chinese train their "barefoot doctors" who provide health services in rural areas. (Author/RM)

The attitudes of first- and second-year students at the University of Nevada School of Medical Sciences were surveyed and results from 95 students (77 percent) show that definite patterns of attitudes toward continuing medical education do exist early. Implications for improving participation motivation are noted. (LBH)

Rising costs of medical care and training of medical professionals have brought about circumstances which threaten the quality of medical care in the U.S. One response by the medical community has been the introduction of educational technology and design processes into professional training. (Author/JEG)