How the pressure of a stiff competition for admission to medical school affects undergraduates at Yale University is examined. Results of questionnaires completed by 317 Yale undergraduates including 101 premedical students, in 1977, are presented. It was found that students do hold a fairly strong negative stereotype of the premedical student who…

Reported are the results of an examination of career choices of medical students and physicians from 1958 to 1976. The project was undertaken to determine whether or not data collected at admission and matriculation could be used to predict the career choices of medical students. The report identifies and measures the relative importance of…

Legislative and professional medical committee developments in graduate medical education needs and directions are reviewed in this background paper. The Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) represents a critical nonregulatory step in the establishment of goals for the training and differentiation of physician manpower.…

The way that medical students used objectives throughout the curriculum and factors that influenced their level of use was studied at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, a three-year medical school with an entirely objectives-based curriculum. A questionnaire mailed to 75 students yielded a 75 percent return. The predominant modes for…

Documented are the activities of the Modeling Panel of the Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee (GMENAC) charged with three fundamental tasks: (1) to estimate physician manpower requirements for the year 1990 in each of 23 specialty areas; (2) to project physician supply for 1990 in each of these areas; and (3) based upon…

Educational loan limits for graduate and professional students were estimated to provide manageable repayments that were a proportion of the borrowers' future consumption budget data. Based on each professional group's income profile, loan repayments were computed for each year of repayment and summed across alternative repayment periods to arrive…

This project's goal is to identify and develop management strategies which would allow for the implementation of a number of approaches for providing preservice teachers, beginning teachers, medical students, administrative interns, and graduate students with a year-long field experience. This report discusses the results of field tests,…

The results of the Physician-Patient Situation Test given before and after an interviewing course taught at the University of Texas at Houston in 1977 are reported. It is suggested that medical students can increase receptivity to patients and that an interviewing course can foster the acquisition of empathic skills. (LBH)

Medical students, nursing students, and residents from the University of Florida College of Medicine live and work for several weeks in a rural county health center, providing a wide range of primary care and emergency medical services. Retrospective evaluations by participants are reported. (LBH)

The implementation of a psychiatric outpatient experience for a first class of junior medical students in a nonmedical model community mental health clinic is presented. Advantages and disadvantages of exposing students to a community-oriented, rather than a medical center-oriented, treatment system are detailed, including differences in patient…

A questionnaire was sent to the 47 directors of medical education (DMEs) in metropolitan Chicago teaching hospitals to determine the effect of PL-94-484. Findings are reported on improvement in the quality of foreign medical graduates and of residency programs, efforts at medical school affiliation, and availability of residency programs. (L BH)

Statistical data are presented regarding students applying for residency programs through the National Intern and Resident Matching Program during 1978. Comparisons with previous years are made for overall participation and positions offered and filled. (LBH)

Small groups of medical students are asked to enact a situation in which family members visit their general practitioner with a problem regarding one of the children, and the diffusion of this problem within the family is traced during the course of the simulation. Discussion focuses on the feelings evoked by the simulation. (Author/LBH)

Details of the fourth, fifth, and sixth clinical years' course in preventive and community medicine, introduced at New Zealand's Christchurch Clinical School in 1974, are presented. Topic studies, rotating attachments, preventive medical examinations and ward rounds, simulated disabilities, and conferences are discussed. (LBH)

Describes an undergraduate biochemistry course required to be taken by all students at Beijing Medical University. Provides the outline of the lectures and the specific content areas covered by them. Stresses the need for students to know the biochemical literature and to think scientifically. (TW)