This report focuses on one of the State University of New York's (SUNY's) applied learning initiatives that includes work-based activities, e.g., co-ops, internships, work study, and clinical placement (SUNY Works). With funds from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, SUNY asked the Rockefeller Institute of Government to examine applied…

The way in which interinstitutional cooperation was used to enable a private medical college and public community college to make effective use of their mutual interests in developing an education program is described.

The "fifth pathway" program permits a year of clinical training in the U.S. for the American foreign medical school graduate (FMG) under the supervision of an American medical school. This follow-up study examined the quality of fifth pathway programs and students in New York. (Editor/LBH)

Graduates of "fifth pathway" programs at medical schools in New York state between 1976-1978 were studied to determine their professional careers and choice of medical specialties. Fifth pathway graduates, 95 percent from Mexican medical schools, were more likely to select nonprimary care than primary care specialties. (Author/MLW)