Test performance and attitudes of freshman medical students exposed to various methods of instruction in a biochemistry laboratory are compared. (Editor)

At the heart of contemporary problems in science and technology are economic, social and political issues. Students see this frequently more clearly than their teachers. (Editor)

This project allows medical students to assume the role of practicing physician actively engaged in the process of clinical decisionmaking. (IR)

A condensation of the Report of the Association of American Medical Colleges Task Force to the Inter-Association Committee on Expanding Educational Opportunities in Medicine for Black and Other Minority Students," April 1970. (IR)

Discussions concluded that now is the time to develop criteria for measuring professional quality of practicing physicians and to improve learning processes in medical schools. (Editor/IR)

Paper presented at the Southeastern Regional Conference on the Professional School and World Affairs, Section on Medicine and Public Health, February 29, 1968.

Modification of physician behavior, one approach to controlling health care expenditures, was studied. Students were divided into two groups. The experimental group scored better in their ability to determine diagnoses, make patient-management decisions, and choose essential diagnostic procedures; average charges were half the amount generated by…

An educational contract, a negotiated agreement between a teacher and a learner, addresses four elements: needs, expectations, roles, and content. Research to validate the concept of the educational contract and to document its utility is seen as important to understanding effective clinical teaching. (Author/MLW)

The general internal medicine program at the University of Colorado has sought to emphasize the psychosocial aspects of care in its training. The performance of traditional track residents with general internal medicine resident performance was compared. (MLW)

The attitudes of family practice residents toward ambulatory pharmacy services were compared with pharmacy students' predictions on what the residents' attitudes would be. The residents' perceptions of pharmacist behaviors rated significantly higher than how the pharmacy students thought they would respond. (Author/MLW)

Two internal medicine residency programs at Baylor College of Medicine are discussed. The traditional program emphasizes experience in the care of acute problems within a hospital inpatient environment. The primary care residency program emphasizes training in the outpatient environment and in noninternal medicine disciplines. (MLW)