An updated report is offered of the successes and failures of the quality assurance program at the Medical College of Ohio during 1975-76. Students were used as auditors, submitting written evaluations of patient charts. (LBH)

In a study of 1,195 medical students, those from medical families were insignificantly different from their classmates on premedical scholastic achievement and admission test scores, but were slightly younger and attended more prestigious undergraduate colleges. Academic and clinical performance was equivalent but specialty-choice differences were…

The goal of student competence in performing and understanding physical examination earlier in their medical education seems to be working in a restructured course replacing lectures with physical diagnosis, videotapes and slide-tapes of physical findings, and with tutorial "hands-on" examining-practice sessions taught by internal medicine…

As part of a forthcoming national study of the medical school admissions process, data on the number of applications for admission and acceptances were obtained from the AAMC Medical Student Information System. The data showed an average 8.83 applications per person, the reduction of which might save anxiety, time, effort, and money. (Author/LBH)

The goals, techniques, and assessment of the undergraduate teaching program in psychiatry as a whole is discussed with emphasis on the third-year clerkship. The value of the program as been educational clarity, the development of a high esprit de corp among the faculty, student acceptance, and integration of psychiatry into the total medical…

Activities of 20 states in funding these medical schools are reported. They show an increase from $4.0 million in 1975-76 to $5.3 million in 1976-77 in bilateral agreements between individual states and medical schools. Funds provided through regional programs continued a slight decline. (LBH)

This program affiliated with the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, defrays costs faced by an Arizona student in attending an out-of-state medical school by paying the difference between the resident and nonresident tuition at the out-of-state school. It has failed to increase the numbers of medicals students and physicians…

This study represents a preliminary effort toward the ultimate goal of identifying some of the major determinants of final career plans of residents in internal medicine. Initial career goal statements indicating future subspecialization are found to be important but the incidence of goal reversal is high. (LBH)

An organizational structure was developed at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine for a pediatric nephrology elective. A study guide and format ensure that students have a common knowledge base--the lack of which has been a problem in electives--and allows them to participate in patient problems. (LBH)

A study of internal medicine residents examined patterns of educational indebtedness, effects on their training and career decisions, frequency with which they begin loan payments during training, extent to which they moonlight and the reasons for doing so, and their opinions about the effects of moonlighting on house staff training. (MSE)

Departments of family medicine in U.S. medical schools were surveyed regarding the ongoing contact between preclinical students and either patients or physicians. Evaluation of programs providing clinical exposure to preclnical students is needed to determine their impact on patient care and student learning. (Author/MLW)

The use of nurses or other health workers to assess residents' humanistic behavior is discussed. Since nurses and other paramedical staff members observe residents interacting with their patients, these professionals may be a valuable but underused resource in the evaluation of physicians' humanistic qualities. (MLW)

A study compared the attitudes of men and women junior medical students at one medical school before and after a surgery clerkship concerning their confidence in dealing with problems in the doctor-patient relationship, concerns about future practice, and the value of preventive care. (MSE)

The hypothesis that first-year medical residents' evaluate their performance in a more differentiated manner than their supervisors was evaluated. An evaluation form was developed to obtain ratings of performance in 13 specific areas. Results showed that residents were more discriminating than supervisors in evaluating residents performance. (JAZ)

A system developed for more efficient evaluation of graduate medical students' progress uses numerical scoring and a microcomputer database management system as an alternative to manual methods to produce accurate, objective, and meaningful summaries of resident evaluations. (Author/MSE)