Two main objectives were set by the group of eight students and an instructor the exploration of feelings and attitudes by the student toward his own dying and death and an appreciation of what the experience of dying is like in order to facilitate the development of the student's sensitivity to the needs of the dying patient and his family.…

Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) medical directors and academics (N=450) explored the barriers to and incentives for cooperation between academic medical centers (AMCs) and HMOs in clinical education. AMCs need to be prepared to offer meaningful academic and financial inducements to attract HMOs to participate in teaching. (Author/MLW)

This paper studies the perceptions of clinically based registered nurses in England concerning the role of the nurse teacher in different clinical areas at two National Health Service Hospital Trusts served by a single College of Nursing and Midwifery. Survey questionnaires were completed by 33 registered nurses employed at the two hospital…

For the past eight years at Harvard Medical School, students have viewed the behavioral science course as an introduction to psychiatry and to the doctor-patient relationship in much the same way as pathophysiology has served to introduce medicine. Course organization and effectiveness are reviewed briefly. (LBH)

All present and past participants in a post-PharmD pharmacy residency program were surveyed in a program evaluation. The residency was comprised of rotations in the emergency room and each resident was required to meet for one hour each day with assigned clinical pharmacy faculty for the morning report. (Author/MLW)

Many educators emphasize the teaching value of patient contact for the medical trainee, but only a few have considered the value or harm to patients who participate in a teaching exercise. This question was investigated by evaluating the responses of patients participating in training interviews. (MLW)

Two internal medicine residency programs at Baylor College of Medicine are discussed. The traditional program emphasizes experience in the care of acute problems within a hospital inpatient environment. The primary care residency program emphasizes training in the outpatient environment and in noninternal medicine disciplines. (MLW)

A program for improving and expanding dental education concerning treatment of the handicapped was evaluated and compared to dental education programs that were not funded to address the needs of the handicapped. Eleven dental schools received funding during 1975-1978 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the special training. Various kinds…

Despite some efforts, dental education is not succeeding at creating socially responsible, service-oriented professionals. Further research should be undertaken on the effectiveness of various forms of community health services, improving service to underserved populations, the perceptions of the underserved, clinical experience with health teams,…

A survey of 222 obstetrics patients assisted by medical clerkship students from the University of Vermont and 78 who refused student participation found privacy the primary motivation for refusal and a desire to contribute to students' education a primary reason for accepting student participation. Patients frequently erroneously anticipated the…

A survey of graduates of a vision training residency investigated patterns in their practice location, gender, marital status, optometry schools attended, primary mode of practice, distribution of professional time, faculty affiliations, income, and association memberships. (MSE)

A project to (1) develop and apply a microcomputer simulation program to enhance clinical medication problem solving in preclerkship and clerkship students and (2) perform an initial formative evaluation of the simulation is described. A systematic instructional design approach was used in applying the simulation to the disease state of rheumatoid…

Describes an evaluation plan and preliminary results for the ATS-6 satellite interactive telecommunication program for teaching basic science and clinical diagnosis at sites remote from an established medical school (University of Washington). This study assesses the technical feasibility, interaction characteristics of the education programs, and…