In an effort to approximate the costs and judge the usefulness of medical internship interviews at the University of Chicago, questionnaires were sent to the Pritzker School of Medicine, class of 1977, and to the major departments requesting an itemized listing of expenses incurred and the usefulness of the interview process. Cost-saving measures…

An observer discusses factors in the choice of medicine as a career, trends in medical school enrollment and student characteristics, problems posed for medicine by those factors and trends, and their sources and solutions in current medical education. (MSE)