The Regional Medical Library System uses the networks to utilize regional nodes for bibliographic search and retrieval service to schools and individuals. (Editor)

From paper delivered at 80th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 31, 1969, on the legality of student dissent. (IR)

From paper presented at October 30, 1970 plenary session during the 81st Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges. (IR)

Describes a continuing comprehensive care program to train medical personnel to care for ambulatory patients. (Editor/IR)

Drawings of the human figure by applicants to the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, used to spot psychopathological tendencies, were found useful in predicting academic failure or success on the basis of certain graphic criteria. Discusses the potential use of human figure drawings as an adjunct to the admissions process. (WM)

In a comparison of two systems used for evaluating the skills of medical students in relating to patients, the one utilizing interaction analysis yielded more reliable ratings and seems to have potential as an instructional method. The other system used traditional types of judgments registered on a 10-point continuum. Both systems were used with…

Describes qualities used to predict medical school applicants' level of interest in continuing learning. Suggests that strong relationships exist between one's level of involvement in continuing education and high school rank, parents' education, and tendency toward change. Demonstrates the feasibility of developing criteria for predicting…

As measured by self-assessment, medical students' suicide management skills appear to be better among those having completed a medical interviewing course and those having completed a six-week inpatient psychiatry rotation. Attitudes toward the acceptability of suicide had no impact on selection of correct responses. The utility of the instrument…

A review of the literature on resident performance and sleep deprivation suggests that current research is sparse and inconclusive, and existing research suggests potentially severe negative effects. It is proposed that justifications for sleep-depriving night call schedules remain untested, and their use as part of residency training should be…

Sixty-five percent of physicians entering their first professional positions leave the counties of their residencies, following a national migration trend to the Sun Belt. Most of these were in nonprimary care specialties and moved into self-employment or office-based practices, were disproportionately male, and moved to smaller urban or nonurban…

A large number of medical schools have discontinued the use of letter and number grades and have adopted pass-fail or honors-pass-fail grading systems. The relationship of academic performance with the selection of first-year residents for a university-based program in internal medicine is examined. (MLW)

The level of empathy of medical students is compared with the levels of empathy among other university students. The impact of the psychiatric clerkship with group experience on the medical students' empathy for and attitudes toward mental patients as compared with medical students without group experience is explored. (Author/MLW)

An Iowa study examined whether increased medical knowledge affects medical students' interviewing skills in each or any year of medical school. Results suggest interviewing skills are not affected by increased knowledge about medical conditions but can be improved with technique training. (MSE)

Whether student ratings, of course effectiveness, given immediately after the final, would be biased by the presence of unfair questions on that examination was investigated. Data indicate that ratings of course and instructor characteristics, unrelated to testing, remain unbiased by an examination designed to be and recognized as unfair.…

A study is reported that hypothesizes that (1) empathic behaviors and other interpersonal skills are usually not new to internal medicine residents, and (2) that the educational issue is primarily one of skill elicitation and reinforcement rather than learning new content and behaviors. (MLW)