The Gough Adjective Check List was used to assess the self-reported personalities of women graduate studio art students and to compare the resulting group profile to personality profiles of women students in two other fields: medicine and psychology. (SJL)

A course at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago provides students with an understanding of the administrative responsibilities inherent in academic management positions. A practicum, thesis project, and seminars cover such topics as legislative trends and effects of health care institutions, manpower planning and recruitment,…

An elective clinical practicum in sex education is reported. Staff from the D.C. Department of Human Resources and Planned Parenthood train third- and fourth-year medical students in sex education techniques and supervise their work with public school children, mostly fifth- and sixth-grade pupils. (Author/LBH)

The process of resident education in an internal medicine practice was examined through interviews with 14 residents, who discussed their educational experience while caring for ten patients. Study results suggest that resident education in this setting depends upon feedback during patient care, reviewing cases, and reading. (Author/LBH)

A UCLA-San Fernando Valley Medical Program for training residents and interns in interpersonal skills is reported and evaluated. Using a modification of interpersonal process recall (IPR), the teaching technique uses both a structured course format and ongoing videotaping and reviewing of house officer-patient interactions with a faculty member.…

The Talent Identification Program identifies, motivates, and assists high school juniors and seniors with disadvantaged backgrounds who have potential for careers in the health sciences. The policy of assistance in applying and preparing for medical school is in accordance with evidence that rural-background students are more likely to practice…

Community health screening as a preceptorship experience is reported from the Department of Family Practice at the University of California-Davis. Second-year medical students improve their skills and knowledge in medical interviewing and screening physical examination, enhance school-community relationships, and learn the problems of a medically…

One set of case notes a week for 12 successive weeks was selected randomly for each of 28 house officers and scored for use of the POMR format in the data base, initial plans, and progress notes. Marked differences were found in scores among the house officers. (Author/LBH)

Observations were made of 108 pre-clinical medical students interviewing patients carefully selected by general practitioner instructors, under strict supervision in an audiovisual studio. Videotape replay, patient comments, and later group teaching were used to discover students with major defects in personal communication. (Author/LBH)

Results of the National Intern and Resident Matching Program for the past four years show a steadily increasing number of positions offered and filled in the primary care specialities. Marked differences in the number of positions offered and filled were found among the various regions of the U.S. (Author/LBH)

Responses of 40 minority and 62 nonminority medical students at the Rutgers Medical School were analyzed regarding the school, administration, instruction, faculty, fall tutorial assistance, faculty fall review sessions, special teaching program, and summer program. There was a difference between groups on faculty-related concepts. (LBH)

Indications from a 1977 COTH survey are that 20 percent of member institutions expect a significant effect from the anticipated reduction of foreign medical school graduates permitted in the U.S., and that there are sizable interprogram shifts of funded house staff positions, especially into internal medicine, family practice, pediatrics, and…

Computer diagnosis has been shown in a University of Wisconsin study with medical students to assist the clinician through its ability to present a detailed diagnostic analysis of data collected on a patient. It can also document clearly the logic behind its differential diagnosis, making it a good tool for teaching medical decision-making. (LBH)

The rates at which United States medical school seniors and other applicants, Canadian citizens, and foreign medical graduates enrolled in and were placed by the National Resident Matching Program in 1987 are presented and analyzed. (MSE)

Group supervision behaviors were organized into categories representing requirements of effective group supervision. To determine the requirements for effective supervision in groups, reports of behaviors exhibited by a physicain and by a behavioral scientist were collected. Results yielded an empirical account of group supervision to augment the…