A communications program to keep physicians abreast of new developments in medical science. (HS)

The Technological Innovations in Medical Education (TIME) Project of the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications is exploring the use of interactive videodisc, microcomputer, and voice recognition technology to create interactive case studies of simulated patients to train second-year medical students in the introduction to…

Over 13 weeks during two periods in 1978 the diagnostic rate for acute otitis media was monitored among febrile children in the emergency room of a large children's hospital. Temporal variation in diagnostic rates by physicians was largely attributable to differences among individual providers and independent of level of training. (Author/MLW)

The interaction between medicine and journalism and the First Amendment is discussed, along with why the education of the public is so important to society. How medical stories are produced for television is explained, and the need for more cooperation between the news media and the medical establishment is advocated. (MLW)

An interactive, computer-based teaching exercise in diagnosis that emphasizes pathophysiology in the analysis of clinical data is described. Called the Jaundice Program, its objective is to simplify the pattern recognition problem by relating clinical findings to diagnosis via reference to disease mechanisms. (LBH)

The three types of physicians trained in the People's Republic of China (practitioners in Chinese medicine, traditional Mongolian medicine, and western-style medicine) and the design of the medical schools and programs are discussed. (MSE)

Ideological goals in contemporary Cuban undergraduate physician education include relating medical education more closely to broadly disseminated health care, teaching medicine in a wider social framework and less didactically, and reducing professional elitism. (Editor)

Transfer of learning among the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains and among three clinical disciplines (medicine, pediatrics, and surgery) was examined in the final year of a medical student clerkship program. A model based on ethnographic analysis followed by performance measurement was used. (Author/MLW)

A study to ascertain how physicians evaluate their own training and knowledge of human sexuality and their ability to treat their patients' sexual problems showed a neglect of the subject in the formal medical education curriculum. (IR)

Medical education in the People's Republic of China is described as it was seen on a 10-week trip in 1973. Presents an overview of the health care system; the medical curricula; goals of the educational programs; entrance procedures; and the medical school experience. (Editor/PG)

It is felt that the failing of previous continuing medical education projects is the lack of a theoretical construct through which the diverse data can be logically integrated. Suggestions are offered for using television in a supplemental manner. (LBH)

Because participation in continuing education is usually voluntary, it is essential that organizers of continuing education understand the patterns of participation among their prospective clientele. General practitioners in New Zealand were surveyed on their participation in continuing medical education. (Author/MLW)

Discusses the changes that a comprehensive program of national health insurance will instigate in health occupations education. (HS)