Sociodemographic characteristics and major factors influencing Louisiana's medical school graduates' choice of geographic location for graduate medical education are analyzed, and a profile of students preferring to study in-state is presented. Implications for states wanting to increase the proportion of medical students remaining in-state are…

Two major Washington, DC medical training facilities conducted a project to train residents in clinical teaching skills. Residents receiving training were comparatively more confident as teachers, received more positive feedback on their teaching, and were judged by faculty, students, and peers as more effective. (Author/MSE)

Although there is debate over the need for publishing medical case reports, training in writing them can improve residents' skills in library use, critical thinking, and written communication. Other advantages are increased professionalism, facilitated career planning for future academics, and documentation of teaching efforts. (MSE)

A study of factors affecting specialty choice before residency shows clerkship and role models to be most beneficial. Student experiences in the first three years of medical school were most detrimental, although most students select specialties in the third and fourth years. Implications for medical school policy are discussed. (MSE)

An analysis of data from the National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower and the National Resident Matching Program is presented. The degree of congruence of the data is determined and the potential of answering questions about why and when certain career choices are made is discussed. (MLW)

Problems created by noninternal medicine residents rotating on internal medicine services, development of a curriculum which would adequately prepare residents for practice, and recruitment of more competent house officers are discussed. Strategies for improving teaching in the ambulatory environment are suggested. (MLW)

The extent to which laboratory investigation by interns and residents could be considered "excessive" on general medical floors at a teaching hospital is assessed. The ordering of tests by attending physicians was compared with that of residents at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada. (MLW)

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, begun in 1969, was developed to allow selected physician clinicians to acquire skills not part of the usual physician's repertoire. The emphasis has included demographic, epidemiologic, economic, social, organizational, humanistic, anthropological, cultural, and ethical problems. (MLW)

A study of 550 Americans who took the examination sponsored by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates in 1972 after or while attending foreign medical schools revealed that ten years after graduation, 70 have never qualified for American graduate medical education and 61 more have not become licensed practitioners. (Author/MSE)

A survey of 1960-75 graduates of the Medical Residency Program of Strong Memorial Hospital, Rochester, N.Y., to obtain opinions concerning the strengths and weaknesses of their training and their opinions on curricular changes designed to prepare residents better for roles as general internists is discussed. (Author/MLW)

The ability of physicians to convey catastrophic information such as death or terminal illness is seen as an underdeveloped area of communication skills. A study to determine whether simulation with videotape feedback is an effective teaching technique to improve pediatric residents' skills in communication is discussed. (Author/MLW)

The faculty of the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, has designed a rotation in the otolaryngology service, that is a basic clinical orientation to ear, nose and throat medicine, to fit the one-month block committed by the local family practice residency training program. The program is described and its…

It is suggested that for many residents, stressful perceptions of the early years of the residency program may be related to feelings of not being in control of experiences. Support for this idea comes from data obtained on Rotter's Internal-External Control Scale and interviews with residents. (Author/MLW)

A project to improve hospital house officers' recognition of important behavioral, psychological, and social aspects involved in medical care of chronically ill ambulatory patients and an evaluation of its effectiveness are reported. The procedure involved the use of feedback from patient interviews regarding patient satisfaction, medication…

Results of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for 1980 are reported. The data include positions offered and filled by medical specialty and type of applicant. Applicant types are classified as U.S. students, North American graduates, and foreign graduates. Comparisons are made with the NRMP results for 1979. (JMD)