A description of the University of Maryland at Baltimore's one-year postdoctoral program in advanced general dentistry focuses on its goals and objectives, curriculum design, patient population, faculty and staff, finances, and program evaluation measures. (MSE)

The Division of Medicine of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services identified 194 essential nonclinical skills and developed four model medical faculty development curricula exemplifying appropriate ways to conduct faculty development for different types of faculty members. Forty-one recommendations for future faculty development…

While deans and department heads can create a nurturing environment for faculty development, a significant burden of responsibility should be taken by each faculty member. (MSE)

A study of the perceptions of one Canadian medical school's curriculum planners concerning the medical school as a learning environment is reported, and the relationship of the findings to a larger study concerning student personal and educational development within that environment is discussed. (MSE)

A study of journals available for publication by medical school faculty members in different clinical specialties found (1) considerable variation by specialty and (2) a positive relationship between the number of journals available within a specialty and the proportion of senior faculty in the corresponding departments. (MSE)

Programs in emergency medicine are expected to become increasingly organized with the development of emergency medicine teaching faculties. A clerkship design with clinical instruction, classroom instruction, and evaluation is described. (Author/MLW)

The leadership styles and effectiveness of residents in a community hospital were studied as part of a leadership training seminar. Styles that emphasized relationships with co-workers (encouraging and coaching) predominated over low relationship-oriented styles (delegating and structuring). (Author/MLW)

Investigators have suggested that faculty attitudes toward diagnostic testing may encourage inappropriate laboratory use. Those attitudes were determined from case simulations prepared by the faculty for senior medical student examinations. Faculty indifference to tests with limited usefulness may be perceived by students as permission for their…

House medical staff of the University of California, Davis, Medical Center were administered a questionnaire to determine their knowledge of relevant medical-legal principles. Responses from 111 house staff indicated that pediatrics, physical medicine, and rehabilitation staff confronted more medical-legal issues than pathology staff. (SW)

A summer fellowship program is described that was initiated at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University to provide an opportunity for interested faculty to interact with selected students who had used computers before entering medical school. (MLW)

The predominant learning styles of dental students in five classes were studied, along with the extent of the match or mismatch between student and faculty learning styles. Results indicate that a majority of students possess one particular learning style--concrete sequential. (Author/MLW)

Three common arguments against formal classes in professional ethics are examined. A minimum curriculum in dental professional ethics is proposed and a proposed program in professional ethics in dentistry is appended. (MLW)

An investigation into the perceptions of students and instructors of the relative importance of the various teaching, advisory, and patient care functions of instructors is described. Conclusions imply that the role of teachers in a medical course should be more closely defined and the functions made more explicit. (MLW)

Of 173 full-time faculty employed in 1978 at Shiraz University School of Medicine, 108 had left the university by December 1982, and 81 of these had left the country, aggravating the chronic shortage of medical personnel in Iran. Iranian authorities have not been able to counteract these trends. (GC)

Assessed the attitudes of students, faculties, and practitioners associated with two schools of medicine toward gerontologic/geriatric medical education including specific items relating to course content during the preclinical and clinical years. Results revealed a consensus regarding course content in areas such as psychiatry, nutrition, and…