Planning and design procedures which one medical education center employed in translating its educational objectives, philosophy and techniques into laboratory, classroom and clinic facilities are described. Basic planning considerations included--(1) determination of the curriculum, (2) facility utilization rate, (3) housing of research activities, (4) planning of ancillary facilities, and (5) zoning of facilities. Specific design studies were conducted on four major facility groupings--(1) the commons, or general facilities for the use of students and faculty, and classrooms to house basic clinical instruction, (2) the medical sciences unit, for housing of instructional and research activities, (3) the resource unit, for library and other self use facilities, and (4) the clinics unit or the patient care areas. Each study considers primary medical and educational functions, communications and circulation relationships and possible physical layouts. Site planning and development procedures established the optimum interrelationships for efficient functioning, circulation and access for the four groupings and a fifth doctors' grouping. Included is an appendix which presents the results of their study to define the specific needs and objectives of the medical program. (BH)