Structured interviews were conducted with University of Cincinnati students who were 28 or older when they matriculated as freshmen in medical school. The findings indicated that these students experience different stresses from their younger classmates, and they cope with problems and view the professionalization process differently. (Author/MLW)

To determine whether the phenomenon of the lenient or easy grader exists in the setting of the clinical clerkship, the grading patterns during six consecutive years of faculty members in a department of medicine were examined. (MLW)

Examined Australian medical school students' (N=150) conceptual frameworks and reasoning patterns related to natural selection. Results indicate that the majority believed that evolutionary changes occur as a result of need. Implications related to student learning and to science and medical education are considered. (JN)

The behavioral science course at Wright State University School of Medicine includes workshops. The hour-long workshops are student-selected and cover a variety of clinically relevant behavioral science topics. (MLW)

Findings of the 1985 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) are presented. Information is provided on number of applicants, withdrawals, and active participants who are matched/unmatched and positions offered by specialty and type of applicants (U.S., Canadian, and foreign students). (SW)

A study to provide information about medical students' prior knowledge of and attitudes toward medical ethics is reported. A questionnaire was administered to 845 entering medical students at the University of Toronto. The results support the need for a course that requires thinking rather than rote memory. (Author/MLW)

Medical education has offered limited assistance to the medical student encountering death for the first time. Courses on the social and psychological aspects of dying in medical school curricula are examined. (MLW)

A study of medical students' assessments of science instructors and failure to respond to the request for assessment showed no significant bias from failure to obtain responses from all students, reinforcing the representativeness of the evaluations that are received. Studies to generalize these findings to other areas are suggested. (MSE)

A program to provide research training experience at the Mayo Medical School for third-year students is described. Surveys of student attitudes have shown positive feelings concerning their research accomplishments and the value of the time they spent doing the research. (Author/MLW)

A study to determine whether any previous training had been received in death counseling, to assess the need for resident physicians to provide such counseling, and to define the self-perceived confidence level of resident physicians in providing psychosocial support to dying patients and their families is described. (Author/MLW)

In a study of medical student testing, scores on two subjective measures, after a second-year clinical skills course and after the clerkship, were compared with each other and with scores from an objective structured clinical examination, two multiple-choice examinations, and two oral examinations. Correlation between procedures was absent or…

Medical students in a course that included instruction in patient interviewing participated in an experiment devised to alert them to sources of bias that might influence their judgments and management of patients. Suggestions are made for incorporating such sensitization experiments in the medical curriculum. (Author/LBH)

An example of a methodology for programmatic research development in emergency medicine is identified through the establishment of a nonclinical health services research position, which contributes to building a body of knowledge specific to emergency medicine and creating a sense of professional identity among graduate trainees. (Author/LBH)

Good agreement was found between fifth year medical students and their general practitioner tutors. The social aspects of illness were considered the most important by students and both groups emphasized the value of seeing patients in their homes with time for discussion. Implications for curriculum design are discussed. (Author/LBH)

Statistical information about where the graduates of various provincial and Scottish medical schools were doing their pre-registration jobs is presented. The percentage of graduates known to be working within the region of their own medical school varied from area to area. (LBH)