A study was done to examine the relationships between medical residents' beliefs about their clinical teaching roles and their teaching behaviors within the context of work rounds. The research was conceptually based on theories of symbolic interactionism and reasoned action. Fourteen residents in general internal medicine, representing four…

Professional requirements for physicians specializing in nephrology were estimated to assist policymakers in developing guidelines for graduate medical education. In estimating service requirements for nephrology, a nephrology Delphi panel reviewed reference and incidence-prevalence and utilization data for 34 conditions that are treated in the…

A counseling program for senior medical school students is described. Each student who wishes to participate is provided with a prediction of his or her Federal Licensing Examination (FLEX) score, as well as the probability of passing the FLEX in Arkansas. Predictions were computed by performing regression analyses to obtain equations relating…

Use of monitoring techniques at Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center has revealed that young physicians have multiple defects in their interviewing and physical diagnosis skills: errors of technique, omission, detection, interpretation, and recording. Methods developed and utilized over the past three years to teach, monitor, correct and…

Noting the problem of a gap between residency training and primary care practice, the author considers five issues faced by primary care graduate education (the setting, the patients, the curriculum, the students, and the faculty) and the three disciplines involved: internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine. (JT)

Noting that family practice is increasingly accepted as part of the academic system, the author discusses its philosophy, overviews undergraduate programs and residency programs, presenting a sample curriculum outline for a 3-year family practice residency and emphasizing the need for continuity of care and a family practice office or center as a…

Eugene Farley describes the University of Rochester and Highland Hospital Family Medicine Program for teaching of primary care internists, primary care pediatricians, and family doctors. Thomas Piemme presents the George Washington University School of Medicine alternative, a 2-year program in an ambulatory setting leading to broad eligibility in…

This report presents a method for analyzing curriculum using the examinations of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME). The method provides a system by which the NBME examinations can be used each year to compare the content of an external licensing test with the content of the curriculum at the Wright State University School of Medicine…

Pharmacological education is presented as a continuous undertaking of preclinical students, clerks, and physicians and surgeons in training and practice. Goals are listed for the preclinical, clerkship, and residency stages of training, and the various actions which candidates should actually perform at each stage are defined. (Editor/JT)

This survey assessed the role and training of the beginning psychotherapy supervisor. Variables are demographic information, supervisory history and experience, role of supervision in the institution or program, attitudes and approaches towards both therapy and supervision, role as supervisor vis-a-vis the trainee, problems encountered in…

A pilot support group established at Boston City Hospital deals with the personal and professional issues arising from stresses of internship. This report describes the functioning of this group, including a statement of goals, content of weekly meetings, and evaluation by group members. (Author/LBH)

The implementation of a model internal medicine group practice at the University of Colorado Medical Center is described, and the first 19 months of its operation are reported. It was formed to improve house staff experience in ambulatory internal medicine, allowing six residents to participate with two faculty internists in full-time continuous…

Approximately 300 English- and foreign-language references are cited in this MED LARS bibliography on these topics: accreditation and certification, computers, continuing medical education, curriculum, educational measurement, faculty, graduate education, internship and residency, minority groups, medical schools, specialization, students,…

Information on the backgrounds of about 3,000 certified dermatologists listed in the Directory of Medical Specialists was cross-tabulated by computer during 1976. Among the four variables studied--state of birth, medical education, internship, and residency occurred--the strongest influence on location was residency training. (LBH)

Mathematical modeling was utilized in the planning and decision-making process involved in reorganizing a teaching clinic to effect continuity of care. The model interrelated physicians, time, and space, facilitating value judgments and decisions. The reorganization was successful and the outcomes remarkably similar to model predictions.…