Objective: The authors determine psychiatry residents' perceived needs and educational preferences for a physician-manager curriculum. Method: The authors surveyed 102 psychiatry residents at the University of Toronto for their perceived current and desired knowledge and skills in specific administrative areas, and their educational preferences…

Objective: The authors pilot a smoking-cessation outreach for the homeless that extends medical students' tobacco cessation education. Method: In this prospective study, second-year medical students administered cognitive behavior therapy or unstructured support to homeless subjects to help them quit smoking. Self-report and biological measures…

The goal of this study was to investigate whether expert physicians' knowledge can be represented in the form of illness scripts. The idea of "scripts" was introduced by Schank and Abelson (1977) to explain why people are able to bring to bear enormous amounts of knowledge almost effortlessly in practical real-life situations. Previous…

This publication offers information by region on state and other repayment, forgiveness, and scholarship programs for medical students. Each section offers fact sheets on the programs offered by the states in one of four regions: central, northeast, southern, and western. The final section contains information on other programs operated by…

The relationship of indebtedness and career plans at various points of the career development of new physicians was investigated. After initially examining the career plans of graduating medical students, attention was directed to resident physicians who had made some but not all decisions about the future, as well as those who had completed…

Describes a course required for Mayo Medical School students that includes a self-instructional test on 15 common writing faults, a minithesis, and a clinical laboratory research project prepared as a paper submissible to a scientific journal and critiqued by professional editors. (JT)

As part of a 6-week mandatory clerkship in psychiatry the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Arizona relieves one student each week of his primary inpatient duties to participate in neuropsychiatric rating examinations at the Tucson Veterans Administration Hospital. Advantages of this clerkship experience are listed. (JT)

Reports 55,818 enrolled in 114 U. S. medical schools in 1975-76, 28 percent women and minority groups, according to the annual survey of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Tables contain totals for first-year students and total students for each of the past five years for men and women, minority and foreign students. (JT)

The usefulness of hospital charges as a means of teaching medical students the relationship between the quality and the cost of medical care provided by primary care physicians (internists and family physicians) is presented. It is believed that such case studies can aid medical students in understanding their developing role as "generators of…

It is concluded from an investigation of the nature of cognitive differences between health science students at the University of Minnesota and the population of a Minnesota rural area, that differing values, attitudes, and beliefs between health science students and rural populations may contribute to the continuing shortage of rural health…

The present study results indicate that a combination of several learning opportunities served the needs of some medical students better than a more restricted set of options. (Author/PG)

This paper describes an experiment in which Family Medicine residents composed, read, and discussed their poems as a way of bringing to life their often complex relationships with patients. It argues that this approach mobilizes the physicians' own creativity in the service of reflective practice and improved doctor-patient relationships. This…

An outreach program for Dartmouth Medical School has been developed which utilizes rural communities in the education and training of medical students and residents in primary care. (Editor)

Presents information about an atomic model of haemoglobin and describes the oxygenation mechanism as a teaching principle to illustrate the relationship between structure and function at the molecular level. (Author/PEB)