Students have specific learning style preferences, and these preferences may be different between male and female students. Understanding a student's learning style preference is an important consideration when designing classroom instruction. Therefore, we administered the visual, auditory, reading/writing, kinesthetic (VARK) learning preferences…

A study investigated the teaching characteristics on which medical students, residents, and faculty focus in their assessment of teaching and how they arrive at their assessments of teaching quality. Results indicate the important predictors of ratings were clinical competence, demonstrated sensitivity toward patients and families, and recognition…

The University of California faces the challenge of increasing the diversity of students graduating from its medical schools while also adhering to mandated restrictions on the use of race or ethnicity in the admissions process. Students from diverse backgrounds who gain admission as undergraduates to UC Berkeley and express an early interest in a…

When final year medical students reporting poor prescribing confidence were tested, key prescribing weaknesses emerged. This study aimed to characterize student variability in both the experience of and cognitive levels displayed during prescribing. Blooms Taxonomy cognitive categories were assigned to each question of a student test measuring…

Context: Rural communities, often with complex health care issues, have difficulty creating and sustaining an adequate health professional workforce. Purpose: To identify factors associated with rural recruitment and retention of graduates from a variety of health professional programs in the southwestern United States. Methods: A survey…

This investigation examined in two different samples, whether only children differ significantly from firstborn and later-born children in terms of their vocational personality type as described in Holland's RIASEC model, occupational interests, and work values. Literature on family configuration and vocational behavior is reviewed, and current…

The Precursors Study, initiated in 1946, has focused on searching for links between psychological patterns and future disease and death. Gathering a broad spectrum of psychobiological characteristics from a large group of medical students, this study has continued year after year. This study examined the role of psychological factors on mortality,…

Describes a new 4-semester chemistry-biochemistry sequence, an integration and condensation of the traditional 5-semester sequence of general chemistry, organic chemistry, and medical biological chemistry, which has been sufficiently successful at the University of Michigan to be worthy of consideration as a component of regular premedical-medical…

Describes and evaluates a successful one-quarter 26-curriculum hour course in clinical nutrition, which focuses on practical aspects of diet prescriptions, dietary customs, attitudes, and behavior modifications. Required for sophomore medical students and dietetic interns, the course in taught by faculty from several disciplines and includes…

The authors describe one way of organizing and formalizing judgements and values so that the senior medical student can prepare a preference list of internship programs that will provide maximum satisfaction to the student when the computer matching program is employed. (JT)

Presents results of a survey of medical students at Duke University concerning attitudes about women medical students. The personality traits surveyed were: aggression, cognitive structure, endurance, desire for social recognition, achievement orientation, nurturance, understanding, and dominance. (Author/PG)

The author compares the Flexner report on medical education and the Reed report on legal education. Special emphasis is given to how the reports responded to and conceived of the conflict between elite and democratic sentiment in professional education. (DE)

Discusses how first-year medical students perceive phenomena related to death and suicide and how this affects the evaluation of teaching in this area. (Author/PG)

Results indicate that students granted admission variances at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine in 1970-71 achieved much success, attributed to the flexible curriculum at the school. (PG)

A substantial portion of the cognitive information required for success in the clinical years was acquired prior to entry into the clerkship. This paper includes some discussion of the reasons for these findings. (PG)