Objective: Despite an increasing presence of women in medicine, the percentage of women in academic psychiatry remains low. At the University of California, Davis, women represent two-thirds of psychiatry residents; however, the percentage of female faculty is one-third. This article presents a novel approach to the academic gender gap problem.…

Geisinger Medical Center, in rural Pennsylvania, has five residents in each year of the family-practice three-year program; the center expects most of its graduates to locate permanently nearby since experience shows that graduating residents locate within 100 miles of the site of their training. (BR)

Although time-consuming and in some cases causing apprehension among staff and residents, the experience of a peer review at Cleveland Clinic Foundation was useful for staff members, residents, and administrators. Peer review was effective in identifying program strengths and weaknesses and in increasing communication among staff. (Author/MLW)

Discusses suicide care as a core curriculum component of psychiatry residency. Discusses the reasons for formal conceptualization of suicide care education and offers a model curriculum as a reference for residency programs to compare their own activities in this important area of psychiatry. (Author/ABB)

The Waldo General Hospital Podiatric Residency Program, designed to be an intense, "well-rounded," multifaceted, single year of postgraduate practical training for the podiatric physician, is described. Surgical training, internal medicine, "outside rotations," in-hospital rotations, and meetings and lectures are discussed. A…

Draws on discussion with leaders of organizations at the interface of the health and university sectors on the current and future direction of relationships between service, research, and education. Outlines some challenges for those managing the tripartite mission and suggestions for ways to approach these. (EV)

Forty-three residents in internal medicine answered questionnaires about resolving conflicts with attending physicians concerning patient care. Conflicts were most likely to be resolved by negotiation but the nature of the procedure, medical school attended, and future career plans affect the means of resolving the dilemma chosen by the resident.…

Reports on a consortium-based research education seminar program developed by the OHEP Center for Medical Education that presents a yearly research forum in which the best research projects from consortium members are presented by the resident-researchers, who compete for recognition and prize money. Of the 128 presentations to date 25 percent…

Surveyed community physicians affiliated with a teaching hospital to assess factors influencing their decisions to serve as preceptors and the relative value of incentives. Found that student influence on patient care was a driving factor, that preceptors preferred nonmonetary compensation, such as continuing medical education credit, and that…

Objective: This article presents a DVD-based educational program intended to help pediatric residents and practicing pediatricians recognize and respond to adolescent depression in busy primary care settings. Methods: Representatives from pediatrics and adolescent medicine, child and adolescent psychiatry and psychology, and experts in the…

A comprehensive history of physiology in America can be obtained from the records of physiology departments. This supplement to "The Physiologist" contains departmental histories of nine institutions. Featured are the physiology departments at: (1) State University of New York at Buffalo: 1846-1986; (2) University of California at Berkeley; (3)…

The development, implementation, and evaluation of a curriculum in handicapping conditions for pediatric residents are described. Issues unique to the process of resident training are considered in addition to specific content areas. (Author)

Graduate medical education is defined as the phase that begins at graduation from medical school and ends after completion of the requirements for one of the specialty certifying boards. A chronology of events in the history of graduate medical education, 1844-1981, is provided. (MLW)

Explains the current graduate medical education financing system and explores the impacts that various policy changes and legislation under consideration would have on residency programs and the health of already financially stressed teaching hospitals. (EV)

Describe four models of incorporating elder-mistreatment curriculum and collaboration with adult protective services into geriatrics medical education. Draws on efforts at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey--Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine; Hennepin County Medical…