Describes the involvement of residents in designing their curriculum, monitoring their work and learning settings, selecting their peers, evaluating their peers and faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Implications for patient care, future physicians, medical departments, and medical…

Relationships between the ratings of interns by their supervisors, their peers, and the interns themselves on four dimensions are compared and analyzed in relationship to earlier measures of aptitude, achievement, and personality. Findings reported show supervisor ratings to be highest and admission variables to be unrelated to intern performance.…

Reports a study of consultants' critiques on the records of patients treated by house officers which indicates that they provide a convenient tool for evaluation of clinical performance by house officers and an indirect measurement of the quality of teaching and patient care within a medical training program. (JT)

The course described and evaluated here was developed at the University of Washington School of Medicine to teach 20 orthopaedic residents operative techniques, instrument usage, and safety precautions outside of the operating room without hazard to the patient or regard to time constraints. (JT)

Graduate medical education (GME) in the military services was investigated with respect to the following concerns: the maximum capacity of each military medical department to conduct GME programs in its own hospital; how these programs affect the recruitment and retention of military physicians; and the optimal sizes of such programs. It is…

The participant/observer (P/O) evaluation technique was developed to supplement the standard participant evaluation technique in medical education workshops. The feasibility of using the technique was examined at two conferences: an annual state medical meeting with 26 workshops and a patient education conference with 16 workshops. Volunteers from…

Since research has shown that nonintellectual factors relate to the way in which medical student performance is measured, this study explored whether attitudes, expectations, and social values of interns as ascertained on the first day of internship correlated significantly with subsequent assessments of clinical performance by physician…

The curriculum of the General Internal Medicine Residency at the University of California, San Diego, has been designed to prepare graduates for the practice of general as opposed to subspecialty internal medicine. Relevant psychobehavioral topics are incorporated and residents are exposed to long-term management of psychiatric patients. (LBH)

A history, task analysis, and manpower needs for specialists in laboratory animal medicine are discussed. Institutions offering training in this veterinary medicine speciality are listed, and a cooperative program between the veterinary school at Washington State University and the medical school at the University of Washington is described. (JMD)

Approximately 130 references obtained through MEDLARS are cited, dealing with such topics as accreditation, computers, continuing education, curriculum, educational measurement, faculty, foreign graduates, forensic medicine, graduate education, history, minority groups, medical schools, specialism, students, teaching hospitals, teaching methods,…

The control of clinical practice and the disposition of income from this practice have complicated the governance of medical schools for many years. The problem has been magnified recently by a decrease in income from other sources, reduction in the number of service patients, expansion of private services, and federal legislation. Implications…

In 1974 an ambulatory practice was developed for the house staff in the Department of Medicine at Baltimore City Hospital and integrated into the traditional residency program, which is based upon block rotations in inpatient services, emergency service, and subspeciality electives. The goals and strategies of this program are described. (LB H)

Most physicians new to the U.S. are ill-equipped to assume their role alongside their American counterparts. They often lack necessary English proficiency; many lack basic medical concepts and skills; almost all are unfamiliar with professional routines and interpersonal relations in the U.S. The results are potentially dangerous for the patient…

At the University of Minnesota Affiliated Hospitals Residency Training Program in Family Practice and Community Health, internal investigators examined the entire affiliated program (the largest family practice residency program in the U.S.) from such aspects as a description of the residents to the administration of affiliated units. Methods and…

The success of a program at Kaiser Foundation Hospital in Los Angeles to provide pediatric training for family practice residents is reported. Its five-year evolution has resulted in increased capability of family practice physicians to deal with health care for children. (LBH)