Traces the history and lists the activities of the Group on Student Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges. (Author)

Medical faculty tend to influence their students to a great degree in choice of medical specialization. (HS)

Foreign physicians must understand precisely what the patient or other physician is trying to communicate in a hospital situation. (HS)

Describes a noncalculus, medical physics'' course with a basic element of direct hospital field experience. The course is intended primarily for premedical students but may be taken by nonscience majors. (Author/PR)

Ad hoc committee of the Student American Medical Association advocates 1) more accurate evaluation of student progress through variance in grading and testing systems; 2) substitution of lectures with innovative teaching methods; 3) greater flexibility and coordination in curriculum to reflect current social demands on the medical profession.…

Article based on a speech delivered at the 9th Annual Conference on Research in Medical Education, October 30, 1970, Los Angeles. (IR)

Presented in part at Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Boston, Mass., May 1969. (IR)

The use of self-observed television-recorded interviews gives the student a more accurate, objective evaluation of his strengths and weakenesses as a therapist. (Editor/IR)