Table Of ContentIndex to Volume 68 (jJanuary-December 1993)
SUBJECTS
}
}
AAMC annual awards j Specialty preferences of 1993 medical school graduates, 865
Biographies of awardees, 142 } Relationship between indebtedness and the specialty choices of
Announcement that Robert G. Petersdorf received Flexner award, graduating medical students: 1993 update, 933
840
AAMC policy on the generalist physician
AAMC annual meeting AAMC policy on the generalist physician, 1 [letter in response, 498]
Announcement that President Clinton may speak at annual Discussion of the AAMC’s Generalist Physician Task Force policy
meeting, 775 statement [editorial], 48
Issues involved in educating generalists [commentary], 667
AAMC annual report
Aspects of Clinton health care reform plan and related AAMC
Brief description of AAMC 1991-92 annual report, 45
initiatives, 835
Announcement of publication of 1992-93 AAMC annual report, 775
AAMC Position Papers [department]
AAMC consensus conference on use of standardized patients
Overview of AAMC position papers on health care reform, 661
Conference proceedings, 437
AAMC’s efforts to improve the nation’s health, 707
AAMC 1992-93 Curriculum Directory Academic medicine, the cornerstone of the U.S. health care
Announcement of publication of 1992-93 edition, 45 system, 709
Goals and principles for health care reform, 713
AAMC Data Book
Graduate medical education and health care reform, 717
Announcement of publication of 1993 edition, 201
Health-related research issues and health care reform, 725
AAMC Faculty Roster
AAMC primer on prospective payment system
See: Faculty Roster
Announcement of availability, 539
AAMC Facts and Figures [department]
AAMC Project 3000 by 2000
Medical students’ predictions of their practice settings [graph], 41
See: Project 3000 by 2000
AAMC Focus [column] 45, 139, 201, 270, 348, 497, 539, 605, 666,
AAMC Survey of Housestaff Stipends, Benefits, and Funding
775, 840, 897
Announcement of release of annual survey, 45
AAMC guidelines about disabled students
AAMC TRENDS-plus
Announcement of publication, 666
TRENDS-plus: a new look at applicant and matriculation data, 539
AAMC Health Services Research Institute
Abortion
Clinton health care reform plan and related AAMC initiatives, 835 Students’ opinions and projected practice behaviors regarding
AAMC history, operation, mission abortion, 171
History, mission, and operation of the AAMC, 173 One woman’s way of handling her feelings about having an
Sample of activities that AAMC staff did on a single day, 538 abortion, 196
AAMC’s efforts to improve the nation’s health, 707 Abuse of students
Aspects of Clinton health care reform plan and related AAMC See: Medical students’ problems
initiatives, 835
Announcement that Jordan Cohen, MD, will be next AAMC Academic medical centers, broad issues
president, 840 See: Academic medicine, broad issues
AAMC Legislative and Regulatory Update Academic medicine, broad issues
Announcement of publication, 45 See also: Financial issues of academic medicine; Health care, broad
issues; Health care reform; Hospitals; Scientific integrity in
AAMC 1994-95 Medical School Admission Requirements research; and subtopics of Physicians and Patients
Announcement of publication, 348 AAMC policy on the generalist physician, 1 [let. on p. 498]
Litigation involving medical faculty and academic medical centers,
AAMC Medical School Graduation Questionnaire
1950-1991, 7
See also: appropriate AAMC Papers
Impact on organizational culture of introducing computerized
Graduation questionnaire and graduates’ subspecialty plans [let.
physician order entry at an academic medical center, 20
with reply], 498
Impact on medical education of introducing computerized
AAMC Papers [department] physician order entry at an academic medical center, 25
Medical school financing: comparing different types of schools and A view of medical practice in 2020 and implications for medical
departments, 91 [correction on 236] school admission, 31
Rural sources of medical students, and graduates’ choice of rural Primary care and health care reform, 46
practice, 231 Every medical school must have a department of family practice
Medical specialty choice: a selected bibliography with abstracts, 391 [let.], 50
Educational debt, specialty choices, and practice intentions of Medical school financing: comparing different types of schools and
underrepresented-minority medical school graduates, 505 departments, 91 (correction on 236)
ACADEMIC MEDICINE
Index to Volume 68 (jJanuary-December 1993)
SUBJECTS
}
}
AAMC annual awards j Specialty preferences of 1993 medical school graduates, 865
Biographies of awardees, 142 } Relationship between indebtedness and the specialty choices of
Announcement that Robert G. Petersdorf received Flexner award, graduating medical students: 1993 update, 933
840
AAMC policy on the generalist physician
AAMC annual meeting AAMC policy on the generalist physician, 1 [letter in response, 498]
Announcement that President Clinton may speak at annual Discussion of the AAMC’s Generalist Physician Task Force policy
meeting, 775 statement [editorial], 48
Issues involved in educating generalists [commentary], 667
AAMC annual report
Aspects of Clinton health care reform plan and related AAMC
Brief description of AAMC 1991-92 annual report, 45
initiatives, 835
Announcement of publication of 1992-93 AAMC annual report, 775
AAMC Position Papers [department]
AAMC consensus conference on use of standardized patients
Overview of AAMC position papers on health care reform, 661
Conference proceedings, 437
AAMC’s efforts to improve the nation’s health, 707
AAMC 1992-93 Curriculum Directory Academic medicine, the cornerstone of the U.S. health care
Announcement of publication of 1992-93 edition, 45 system, 709
Goals and principles for health care reform, 713
AAMC Data Book
Graduate medical education and health care reform, 717
Announcement of publication of 1993 edition, 201
Health-related research issues and health care reform, 725
AAMC Faculty Roster
AAMC primer on prospective payment system
See: Faculty Roster
Announcement of availability, 539
AAMC Facts and Figures [department]
AAMC Project 3000 by 2000
Medical students’ predictions of their practice settings [graph], 41
See: Project 3000 by 2000
AAMC Focus [column] 45, 139, 201, 270, 348, 497, 539, 605, 666,
AAMC Survey of Housestaff Stipends, Benefits, and Funding
775, 840, 897
Announcement of release of annual survey, 45
AAMC guidelines about disabled students
AAMC TRENDS-plus
Announcement of publication, 666
TRENDS-plus: a new look at applicant and matriculation data, 539
AAMC Health Services Research Institute
Abortion
Clinton health care reform plan and related AAMC initiatives, 835 Students’ opinions and projected practice behaviors regarding
AAMC history, operation, mission abortion, 171
History, mission, and operation of the AAMC, 173 One woman’s way of handling her feelings about having an
Sample of activities that AAMC staff did on a single day, 538 abortion, 196
AAMC’s efforts to improve the nation’s health, 707 Abuse of students
Aspects of Clinton health care reform plan and related AAMC See: Medical students’ problems
initiatives, 835
Announcement that Jordan Cohen, MD, will be next AAMC Academic medical centers, broad issues
president, 840 See: Academic medicine, broad issues
AAMC Legislative and Regulatory Update Academic medicine, broad issues
Announcement of publication, 45 See also: Financial issues of academic medicine; Health care, broad
issues; Health care reform; Hospitals; Scientific integrity in
AAMC 1994-95 Medical School Admission Requirements research; and subtopics of Physicians and Patients
Announcement of publication, 348 AAMC policy on the generalist physician, 1 [let. on p. 498]
Litigation involving medical faculty and academic medical centers,
AAMC Medical School Graduation Questionnaire
1950-1991, 7
See also: appropriate AAMC Papers
Impact on organizational culture of introducing computerized
Graduation questionnaire and graduates’ subspecialty plans [let.
physician order entry at an academic medical center, 20
with reply], 498
Impact on medical education of introducing computerized
AAMC Papers [department] physician order entry at an academic medical center, 25
Medical school financing: comparing different types of schools and A view of medical practice in 2020 and implications for medical
departments, 91 [correction on 236] school admission, 31
Rural sources of medical students, and graduates’ choice of rural Primary care and health care reform, 46
practice, 231 Every medical school must have a department of family practice
Medical specialty choice: a selected bibliography with abstracts, 391 [let.], 50
Educational debt, specialty choices, and practice intentions of Medical school financing: comparing different types of schools and
underrepresented-minority medical school graduates, 505 departments, 91 (correction on 236)
ACADEMIC MEDICINE
Issues relating to increasing the number of generalist physicians, Integrity in biomedical research [entire September supplement],
113 (correction on p. 365) $1-S102
Training an appropriate mix of physicians, 118 Goals and principles for health care reform, 713
Challenges facing research-intensive universities, 140 Graduate medical education and health care reform, 717
Connection between what students are taught and what they do as Health-related research issues and health care reform, 725
physicians: overview of issues, Feb. Supp. Six Faculty development and academic vitality, 760
Perspectives in assessment of medical students and residents, Feb. Patient mix in primary ambulatory care clinics of a university
Supp. S3 hospital, 803
Difficulties of connecting performance assessments before and Problem-based learning: have expectations been met? Oct. Supp.
after graduation from medical school, Feb. Supp. S9 S79
Relationship of academic measures in medical school to Basic issues in medical education, Oct. Supp. S89
performance after graduation, Feb. Supp. S31 Evaluating clinical excellence of faculty, 813
Empirical association between student and resident performances, Announcement of publication of AAMC report on generalist
Feb. Supp. S35 physician initiatives in U.S. medical schools, 840
Measuring and predicting performance of practicing physicians, Medical student academic misconduct: implications of case law
Feb. Supp. S65 and possible institutional responses, 887
Assessment measures during medical school and clinical What medical schools must first do if they want to serve their
competence after graduation, Feb. Supp. S69 communities [let.], 900
Overview of issues of link between assessments in medical school The imperative to establish family medicine departments, 896
and those in practice, Feb. Supp. S79
Academic Medicine [AAMC journal]
Issues important for true health care reform, 178
Instructions for authors of material appearing in Academic
Findings about how well curriculum committees are working, 183
Medicine, 103
Nature of public health after reform, 237
Academic medical centers’ role in preventing violence, 268 Academic Physician [publication]
Is declining class size related to shortage of FM practitioners? [let. Announcement of AA-M AcaCdem ic Physician collaboration, 45
with reply], 271 Announcement of expanded collaborative effort between the
Fostering a new relationship between departments of medicine AAMC and Academic Physician and Scientist, 775
and teaching hospitals [commentary], 276
Accreditation, licensure, and certification
Declining interest of medical school graduates in generalist
See also: Evaluation systems, methods, and issues; NBME and
specialties [commentary], 278 [letter in response, 670]
USMLE; Standardized patients
Undergraduates’ attitudes toward careers in medicine, 323
Connection between what students are taught and what they do as
Defining “academic CME” and comparing it with other types of
physicians: overview of issues, Feb. Supp. Six
CME, 329
Logistics of teaching with SPs, and related topics, 464 (highlights
Ensuring the integrity of the research process [bk. rev.], 340
of group discussion on these topics, 469)
Evils of congressional pork-barreling of appropriations to
Statement of researchers on use of SPs to evaluate clinical skills, 475
academic institutions, 346
Introduction to articles about use of the USMLE in medical
Mental health services for medical students; perceptions of
education settings, 732
students, deans, and providers, 360
Background essential to proper use of results of the USMLE’s
Academic medicine’s role in shaping U.S. science policy, 494
Step 1 and Step 2, 734
Announcement of new AAMC community service award, 497
The USMLE, the NBME subject examinations, and assessment of
Educating Medical Students [text of ACME— TRI Report], June
individual academic achievement, 740
Supp. S1
Use of NBME and USMLE examinations to evaluate medical
Guidelines for promoting meaningful innovation in academic
education programs, 748
medical centers, June Supp. S50
Use of the USMLE to select residents, 753
Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June
Use of NBME and USMLE scores [commentary], 778
Supp. S55
Use of standardized-patient examinations in conjunction with
Reflections on medical education reform, 518
licensure and certification, Oct. Supp. S1
Importance of strong evaluation standards and procedures in
An OSCE for the licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada,
training residents, 522
Oct. Supp. S4
Computer networking: an overview for leaders of academic medical
Comparison of pass/fail classifications made with scores from the
centers, 528
NBME standardized-patient examination and Part II
Research fraud in the behavioral and biomedical sciences [bk.
examination, Oct. Supp. S7
rev.], 535
Validity of scores and pass/fail standards for USMLE Steps 1 and
Tensions within the academic medical center, 585
2, Oct. Supp. S19
Three views of faculty tenure, 588
Relationships of ratings of clinical competence and ABIM scores
Announcement of AAMC position papers on health care reform, 605
to certification status, Oct. Supp. $22 :
Biomedical research must remain a priority [let. with reply], 611
Performances of men and women on NBME Part I and Part II,
Involvement of academic health centers in health care reform, 648
Oct. Supp. $25
Increasing the pool of medical education researchers, 654
Performance of family practice diplomates on recertification
Overview of AAMC position papers on health care reform, 661
examinations, 912
Announcement of conference to examine industry’s role in
biomedical research, 666 ACME—TRI report
Issues involved in educating generalists [commentary], 667 Curriculum change by legislative directive, 343
Academic medicine, the cornerstone of the U.S. health care system, Preface to proceedings of AAMC conference on use of SPs in
709 teaching and evaluation of clinical skills, 438
VOLUME 68 ® NUMBER 12 # DECEMBER !993
Welcome to AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and education, programs and courses; Residents’ education,
evaluation of clinical skills, 439 programs and courses
Perspectives for curriculum renewal in medical education, 484 Physicians’ productivity and teaching responsibilities, 166 [letter
Educating Medical Students [text of ACME— TRI Report], June in response, 611]
Supp. S1 Guide to teaching in ambulatory care setting [bk. rev.], 192
Assessing resources needed to provide ambulatory care experiences
Admission and recruitment
to medical students [let.], 202
See also: Medical students’ knowledge and skills; Minorities;
Effect of ambulatory care experience on students’ residency
Women in medicine; MCAT; entire February Supplement
choices and attitudes toward internal medicine, 311
A view of medical practice in 2020 and implications for medical
Hospital-based versus community-based clinical education for
school admission, 31
pediatrics students, 380
Assessment meazures in medical school, residency, and practice:
Physicians’ productivity and teaching responsibilities [let. with
the connections [entire February supplement], S1-S106
reply], 611
Predictors of black students’ board performance, 204
Students’ clinical experiences in an ambulatory care internal
Premedical preparation and academic performance in medical
medicine rotation, 674
school and residency, 229
Patient mix in primary ambulatory care clinics of a university
Medical school admissions: insider’s guide [bk. rev.], 261
hospital, 803
Is declining class size related to shortage of FM practitioners? [let.
Internal medicine ambulatory-care-based education: three models,
with reply], 271
Oct. Supp. S34
Undergraduates’ attitudes toward careers in medicine, 323
A longitudinal ambulatory care clerkship: effects on specialty
Announcement of publication of AAMC’s 1994-95 Medical School
choice and residency preparation, Oct. Supp. S37
Admission Requirements, 348
Placing third-year medical clerks in a continuity clinic, 845
Admission interview scores and dean’s letter ratings [let. with
reply], 500 Anatomy
TRENDS-plus: a new look at applicant and matriculation data, 539 Reflections on the experience of dissecting a cadaver, 136
Threatened role of the premedical adviser [let.], 547 Teaching sectional anatomy [let.], 548
Descriptive analysis of medical school application forms, 564
Students’ psychosocial characteristics as predictors of academic Anesthesiology
performance in medical school, 635 Selection of anesthesiology residents, 161
Autobiography of E. Grey Dimond, academic medicine innovator Financial impact of Medicare fee schedule on a department of
[bk. rev.], 658 anesthesiology, 643
Number of applicants to medical school rises greatly, 666 Animals in research
Who’s to blame for low production of generalists? [let. with reply], See also: Research, biomedical and health services
670 Report of Saving Lives Coalition reception for congressional
Comparing entrance scores of students who did and did not have leaders, 270
postbaccalaureate preparation, 703 Need for sponsors for National Biomedical Research Day, 348
A program to facilitate entry of minority students into medical
school, Oct. Supp. $10 APM (Association of Professors of Medicine)
Performances of men and women on NBME Part I and Part II, Fostering a new relationship between departments of medicine
Oct. Supp. $25 and teaching hospitals [commentary], 276
Announcement of publication of AAMC report on generalist
Applicants to medical school
physician initiatives in U.S. medical schools, 840
See: Admission and recruitment
Admission requirements of medical schools [publication]
Asian-American students
See: AAMC 1994-1995 Medical School Admission Requirements
See: Minorities
African-American students
See: Minorities Assessment
See: Evaluation systems, methods, and issues; Medical students’
AHECs [Area Health Education Centers] knowledge and skills; Residents’ knowledge and skills:
Colorado’s education effort to increase number of graduates Standardized patients
practicing primary care in rural areas, 310
Interstate benefits from an AHEC’s decentralized medical Asthma
education [let.], 782 Effect of training on family physicians’ management of asthma
Residency rotations to foster careers in rural health care [let.], 900 [let.], 274
Alcoholism Australia
See: Substance abuse Traditional assessments of students and residents and an
alternative, Feb. Supp. $23
Allied health professionals
See: Nurses and allied health professionals Authorship
See: Scholarly publishing
Alternative medicine
Modern medicine and Jewish ethics [bk. rev.], 39 Autopsy
Developing therapeutic relationships in multicultural settings, 826 Reflections on the experience of dissecting a cadaver, 136
American health quackery [bk. rev.], 833
Basic sciences skills and teaching
Ambulatory care, setting and teaching See also: Curriculum; Evaluation systems, methods, and issues;
See also: Clinical instruction and clerkship; Medical students’ Medical students’ education, programs and courses
940 ACADEMIC MEDICINE
Value of basic science teaching for physicians’ practice, Feb. Supp. Canada
$27 Let’s say “no” to Canada-bashing, 138
Misguided reform of the basic sciences curriculum [let.], 202 Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June
Educating Medical Students [text of ACME—TRI Report], June Supp. S55
Supp. S1 Guidelines for estimating the real cost of an OSCE, 513
Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June An OSCE for the licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada,
Supp. S55 Oct. Supp. S4
Providing clinical experience to first-year students [let.], 613 Impact of repeated use of OSCEs, Oct. Supp. S73
Taking students’ course evaluations with a grain of salt [let.], 614
Discussion topics in clinical cases in problem-based tutorials Careers after residency
during a basic science course, Oct. Supp. S31 See: Careers in medicine; Physicians’ careers after residency;
Specialty choice
Biography and autobiography
Careers in medicine
See: Historical topics and biography
See: Physicians’ careers after residency; Specialty choice
Book reviews [column] Certification
Crisis in clinical research [bk. rev.], 38 See: Accreditation, licensure, and certification
Modern medicine and Jewish ethics [bk. rev.], 39
Improving health policy and mangement: research issues [bk. rev.], Class size issues
40 Is declining class size related to shortage of FM practitioners? [let.
Health policy and the Hispanic [bk. rev.], 132 with reply], 271
Tools for primary care research [bk. rev.], 133 Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June
Teaching during rounds [bk. rev.], 134 Supp. S55
Guide to teaching in ambulatory care setting [bk. rev.], 192 Understanding the shortage of family medicine physicians [let.
Money, medicine, and malpractice in American society [bk. rev.], 193 with reply], 669
Innovation and public policy in the medical device industry [bk.
Clinical skills and their evaluation
rev.], 194°
See: Evaluation systems, methods, and issues; Standardized
Medical school admissions: insider’s guide [bk. rev.], 261
patients; Ambulatory care, setting and teaching; appropriate
Ethical dilemmas of physicians in era of high-technology medicine
subtopics under Medical students, Residents, and Physicians
[bk. rev.], 262
Health economics: efficiency, quality, and equity [bk. rev.], 263 Clinical instruction and clerksbips
Story of John Hinckley’s assassination attempt upon President See also: Ambulatory care, settings, and teaching; Evaluation
Reagan (bk. rev.], 339 systems, methods, and issues; Medical students’ knowledge and
History of New Orleans Charity Hospital [bk. rev.], 339 skills; Medical students’ education, programs and courses;
Ensuring the integrity of the research process [bk. rev.], 340 Faculty teaching f
Freud and the history of psychoanalysis [bk. rev.], 341 Station-length requirements for reliable performance-based
Ethics and health care for the elderly [bk. rev.], 487 examination scores, 224
Improving communication between doctors and patients [bk. rev.], Influence of previous clerkship on students’ satisfaction with
488 current clerkship, 230
Rural health care: innovation in a changing environment [bk. Need for new ways to assess clinical competence, 244
rev.], 489 Comparing clerkship sites by comparing students’ performances, 298
Medical ethics in the liberal state [bk. rev.], 532 Teaching physical diagnosis in a primary care setting and a
Collaborative clinical education, the foundation of effective health hospital setting, 311
care [bk. rev.], 533 Clinical teaching by voluntary faculty [let.], 355
Research fraud in the behavioral and biomedical sciences [bk. Triple-jump examination as an assessment tool in a PBL
rev.], 535 curriculum, 366
Medical injury, malpractice litigation, and patient compensation Hospital-based versus community-based clinical education for
(bk. rev.], 599 pediatrics students, 380
Scientific and social issues in the Human Genome Project [bk. Internal medicine residents’ attitudes toward giving feedback to
rev.], 600 medical students, 388
Death and dying in law and medicine [bk. rev.], 601 Educating Medical Students [text of ACME—TRI Report], June
Doctors, their feelings, and doctor-patient relationship [bk. rev.], 657 Supp. S1
Autobiography of E. Grey Dimond, academic medicine innovator Guidelines for promoting meaningful innovation in academic
[bk. rev.], 658 medical centers, June Supp. S50
Biography of Stanhope Bayne-Jones, expert manager of research, Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June
education, and prevention programs [bk. rev.], 659 Supp. S55
Memoirs of a transplant surgeon [bk. rev.], 767 Collaborative clinical education, the foundation of effective health
The health of women: a global view [bk. rev.], 768 care [bk. rev.], 533
Autobiography of Carl Djerassi [bk. rev.], 770 Identifying marginal performers in a clerkship, 575
Philosophical essays in biomedical ethics [bk. rev.], 831 Medical students’ experiences in a primary care clerkship, 577
Medicine in society: historical essays [bk. rev.], 832 Students’ performance of invasive procedures during a medicine
American health quackery [bk. rev.], 833 clerkship, 582
Challenge of problem-based learning [bk. rev.], 890 Providing clinical experience to first-year students [let.], 613
Essays on ethics of health care [bk. rev.], 891 Students’ clinical experiences in an ambulatory care internal
Problems of leaders with disabilities [bk. rev.], 892 medicine rotation, 674
VOLUME 68 ® NUMBER 12 # DECEMBER 1993
Gender bias in preceptors’ ratings of medical students, 703 physician order entry at an academic medical center, 20
Patient mix in primary ambulatory. care clinics of a university Impact on medical education of introducing computerized
hospital, 803 physician order entry at an academic medical center, 25
Learning climate and students’ achievement in a medicine
Computers in administration and patient care
clerkship, 811
See also: Informatics
Students’ perceptions of problem-based learning curriculum in
Impact on organizational culture of introducing computerized
surgery, Oct. Supp. S28
physician order entry at an academic medical center, 20
Discussion topics in clinical cases in problem-based tutorials
Impact on medical education of introducing computerized
during a basic science course, Oct. Supp. $31
physician order entry at an academic medical center, 25
Internal medicine ambulatory-care-based education: three models,
Desktop database dilemma, 34
Oct. Supp. $34
Coupling biomedical terminology and knowledge, 257
A longitudinal ambulatory care clerkship: effects on specialty
Announcement of information technology workshop, 497
choice and residency preparation, Oct. Supp. $37
Computer networking: an overview for leaders of academic medical
Specialty choice during the clinical years, Oct. Supp. S55
centers, 528
Diagnostic accuracy as a function of case prototypicality, Oct.
Faculty development and academic vitality, 760
Supp. S58
Influence of vignettes on EKG interpretation by third-year Computers in teaching, evaluation, and selection
students, Oct. Supp. S61 Desktop database dilemma, 34
Using clinician ratings to model score weights for a computer- Announcement of advisory committee on electronic residency
based clinical-simulation examination, Oct. Supp. S64 application system, 139
Problem-based learning: have expectations been met? Oct. Supp. Selection of anesthesiology residents, 161
S79 Need to promote computer-aided instruction in medical schools
Evaluating clinical excellence of faculty, 813 [let.], 499
Placing third-year medical clerks in a continuity clinic, 845 Educating Medical Students [text of ACME—TRI Report], June
Influence of philosophical versus theological education on moral Supp. S1
development of clinical medical ethicists, 848 Recognition of computer-based materials in schools’ promotion
Comparison of moral reasoning of physicians and clinical medical guidelines, Oct. Supp. S16
ethicists, 852 Diagnostic accuracy as a function of case prototypicality, Oct.
Differences of opinion about book on collaborative clinical Supp. S58
education, 903 Using clinician ratings to model score weights for a computer-
Influence of an internal medicine clerkship conference on based clinical-simulation examination, Oct. Supp. S64
students’ acquisition of knowledge, 923 Examining efficacies of three types of performance feedback used
Clinical skills training of U.S. medical students, 926 with computer-based instruction on diagnosing abdominal pain,
862
Clinton administration and health care
See: Health care reform; Legislation, specific bills; Research, Consensus conference on use of standardized patients
biomedical and health services; and National Policy Perspectives See: AAMC consensus conference on use of standardized patients
[column] Continuing medical education
CME in Toronto clinics [let.], 50
Cohen, Jordan
Lifelong learning of physicians: contributions of different
Announcement that Jordan Cohen, MD, will be next AAMC
educational phases to practice performance, Feb. Supp. S57
president, 840
Using active participation in a consensus conference to enhance
Commentaries [department] conference’s influence on physicians’ clinical behavior, 312
Fostering a new relationship between departments of medicine Defining “academic CME” and comparing it with other types of
and teaching hospitals [commentary], 276 CME, 329
Declining interest of medical school graduates in generalist Broader implications of new CME guidelines for commercial
specialties [commentary], 278 [letter in response, 670] support [let.], 352
Understanding and eradicating bias against women in medicine Call to increase the accessibility of medical education information
[commentary], 349 [let.], 355
Why more women do not choose surgery as a career [commentary], Connection between CME and education in medical schools,
350 ‘commentary], 668
Problem-based learning and meta-analysis [commentary], 542 A combined video-workbook educational CME program, Oct.
Socrates and “Flexides” debate merits of problem-based learning Supp. S13
[commentary], 608 Requirements for speakers at “promotional” educational activities
Issues involved in educating generalists [commentary], 667 versus independent CME activities [let.], 841
Connection between CME and education in medical schools, Performance of family practice diplomates on recertification
[commentary], 668 examinations, 912
Use of NBME and USMLE scores [commentary], 778
Corrections of misprints
Communication skills The Negev project in community-based training and health
See: Admission and recruitment; Evaluation systems, methods, service, 194
and issues; appropriate topics under Medical students; Residents; Medical school financing: comparing different types of schools and
and Faculty departments, 236
Issues related to increasing number of generalists, 365
Computers, impact on human behavior Problem-based learning literature review, 615
Impact on organizational culture of introducing computerized Issues of medicine’s and our culture’s view of death, 687
942 ACADEMIC MEDICINE
Cost issues Biomedical research must remain a priority [let. with reply], 611
See: Financial issues of academic medicine; Health care costs How one school used caution in integrating problem-based
learning into the curriculum [let.], 612
COTH [Council of Teaching Hospitals]
Providing clinical experience to first-year students [let.], 613
Fostering a new relationship between departments of medicine
Performance on NBME exams by students in problem-based and
and teaching hospitals [commentary], 276
conventional tracks, 616
Overview of AAMC position papers on health care reform, 661
Issues involved in educating generalists [commentary], 667
Culture and society health issues Connection between CME and education in medical schools,
See: Health issues in culture and society [commentary], 668
Self-directed learning versus lectures at U.S. medical schools, 700
Curriculum
Academic medicine, the cornerstone of the U.S. health care
See also: Academic medicine, broad issues; Ambulatory care,
system, 709
setting, and teaching; Basic sciences; Clinical instruction and
Graduate medical education and health care reform, 717
clerkship; Evaluation systems, methods, and issues; NBME and
Health-related research issues and health care reform, 725
USMLE;; subtopics under Medical students’ education and
Studying science in the context of ethics, Sept. Supp. S5
Residents’ education
Use of NBME and USMLE examinations to evaluate medical
Announcement of publication of 1992-93 edition of AAMC
education programs, 748
Curriculum Directory, 45
Problem-based learning: have expectations been met? Oct. Supp.
Anxieties of entering first-year residents, 90
$79
Child’s role in the pediatric interview, 90
Basic issues in medical education, Oct. Supp. S89
Faculty status for clinician-educators: guidelines for evaluation
Expanding medicine’s knowledge base to include biopsychosocial
and promotion, 126
dimension [let.], 841
Long-term outcomes of innovative curricular tracks in four
Mock ethics trial for medical students and law students [let.], 844
countries, 128
Placing third-year medical clerks in a continuity clinic, 845
Students learn to view patients as people rather than as just
Clinical skills training of U.S. medical students, 926
medical cases [let.], 146
Value of basic science teaching for physicians’ practice, Feb. Supp. Curriculum committee
$27 Findings about how well curriculum committees are working, 183
Findings about how well curriculum committees are working, 183 Elements of an effective medical school curriculum committee, 255
Announcement of handbook for women liaison officers and other Centralized decision making in curriculum management, 333 [let.
women in academic medicine, 201 in response, 919]
Misguided reform of the basic sciences curriculum [let.], 202 Curriculum directory
Facilitator expertise and PBL in PBL and traditional curricula See: AAMC 1992-93 Curriculum Directory
[let.], 203
Data Book
Preparing medical libraries for use by students in PBL curricula
See: AAMC Data Book
[let.], 205
Problem effectiveness in a PBL course, 207 Dean’s letter
Producing physician-scientists: a Harvard-MIT program, 214 See also: Residency selection
Elements of an effective medical school curriculum committee, 255 Admission interview scores and dean’s letter ratings [let. with
Academic medical centers’ role in preventing violence, 268 reply], 500
Method for selecting a site for a rural residency [let.], 273 Characteristics of dean’s letters in 1981 and 1992, 905
Colorado’s education effort to increase number of graduates
Deans of medical schools
practicing primary care in rural areas, 310
See also: Academic medicine, major issues; subtopics under Faculty
Centralized decision making in curriculum management, 333
Educating Medical Students [text of ACME—TRI Report], June
Curriculum change by legislative directive, 343
Supp. S1
Overview of uses of SPs for teaching and evaluation of clinical
Tensions within the academic medical center, 585
skills, 443 (highlights of group discussion on this topic, 451)
Perspectives for curriculum renewal in medical education, 484 Death and dying
Educating Medical Students [text of ACME—TRI Report], June See also: Ethics; Religion
Supp. S1 Giving importance to the biography, not just the biology, of the
Guidelines for promoting meaningful innovation in academic patient, 266
medical centers, June Supp. S50 Ethics and health care for the elderly [bk. rev.], 487
Reflections on medical education reform, 518 Family member defying hospital rules to indulge dying patient, 536
Faculty evaluators for a medical school curriculum, 526 Death and dying in law and medicine [bk. rev.], 601
Collaborative clinical education, the foundation of effective health Issues of medicine’s and our culture’s view of death, 602 [correction
care [bk. rev.], 533 on 687]
Problem-based learning and meta-analysis [commentary], 542 Learning how to communicate with dying patients, 772
Comparison of problem-based and traditional curricula still not Philosophical essays in biomedical ethics [bk. rev.], 831
possible [let.], 545 Experience and manifestations of growing old, 894
Medical students’ use of the elective fourth year, 582
Debt of medical students and residents
Community-based teaching of medical students to increase
See: Financial issues of academic medicine; Medical students’
number of primary care practitioners, 594
problems; Residents’ problems
National consensus on essentia! international-health curriculum
for medical schools, 596 Dermatology
Socrates and “Flexides” debate merits of problem-based learning Validity of NBME Part I and II scores to select residents in three
[commentary], 608 specialties, Feb. Supp. S51
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Diagnostic skills Changing relationship of editors and authors [editorial], 49
See: Performance and skills topics under Medical students; Prevalences of ethics, socioeconomics, and legal education
Residents; and Physicians requirements for residents, 89
Ethical dilemmas that medical students face, 249
Drugs, therapeutic Ethical dilemmas of physicians in era of high-technology medicine
The FDA’s MEDWatch program, 776 (bk. rev.], 262
Defining “academic CME” and comparing it with other types of
Drug abuse
See: Substance abuse CME, 329
Ensuring the integrity of the research process [bk. rev.], 340
ECFMG [Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates] Patient’s anger over her physician’s insensitivity to removal of her
Welcome to AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and reproductive organs, 344
evaluation of clinical skills, 439 Evils of congressional pork-barreling of appropriations to
Introduction to AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and academic institutions, 346
evaluation of clinical skills, 440 Broader implications of new CME guidelines for commercial
Summary of AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and support [let.], 352
evaluation of clinical skills, 471 Ethics and health care for the elderly [bk. rev.], 487
Use of standardized-patient examinations in conjunction with Medical ethics in the liberal state [bk. rev.], 532
licensure and certification, Oct. Supp. $1 Research fraud in the behavioral and biomedical sciences [bk.
rev.], 535
Editorials [department]
Family member defying hospital rules to indulge dying patient, 536
Discussion of the AAMC’s Generalist Physician Task Force policy
Scientific and social issues in the Human Genome Project [bk.
statement [editorial], 48
rev.], 600
Changing relationship of editors and authors [editorial], 49
Death and dying in law and medicine [bk. rev.], 601
Elderly, issues of Issues of medicine’s and our culture’s view of death, 602 [correction
See also: Geriatrics on 687]
Using elderly disabled patients to teach history-taking and Popular culture’s images of medicine and science: reflections on
physical examination [let.], 901 Jurassic Park, 662
Experience and manifestations of growing old, 894 Integrity in biomedical research [entire Sept. supplement], S1-S102
Philosophical essays in biomedical ethics [bk. rev.], 831
Emergency medicine American health quackery [bk. rev.], 833
Compressed video for clinical consultation [let.], 146 Requirements for speakers at “promotional” educational activities
Story of John Hinckley’s assassination attempt upon President versus independent CME activities [let.], 841
Reagan [bk. rev.], 339 Mock ethics trial for medical students and law students [let.], 844
Broadening the perspective of emergency medicine residents [let.], Essays on ethics of health care [bk. rev.], 891
781
Multi-university residency training [let.], 842 Evaluation systems, methods, and issues
Effect of HIV epidemic on emergency medicine residents’ choices See also: Basic sciences; Clinical instruction and clerkship;
of specialty and residency locations, 931 Curriculum; Dean’s letter; LCME; MCAT; NBME and USMLE;
Standardized patients; and appropriate topics under Medical
Ethics and humanities teaching
students, Residents, and Faculty
See also: Death and dying; furthermore . . .; Scientific integrity in
research Faculty status for clinician-educators: guidelines for evaluation
Students learn to view patients as people rather than as just and promotion, 126
medical cases [let.], 146 Influence of candidates’ test selection on pass rates on ECFMG
Ethical dilemmas that medical students face, 249 certification exams, 150
Patient’s anger over her physician’s insensitivity to removal of her Examinee gender, SP gender, and their interaction on SPs’ ratings
reproductive organs, 344 of examinees’ interpersonal and communication skills, 153
Using film discussions to develop moral reasoning of medical Assessment measures in medical school, residency, and practice:
students, 383 the connections [entire February supplement], S1-S106
Residents’ desire for more clinical ethics education [let.], 614 Credentialing program for surgery residents [let.], 204
Influence of philosophical versus theological education on moral Station-length requirements for reliable performance-based
development of clinical medical ethicists, 848 examination scores, 224
Comparison of moral reasoning of physicians and clinical medical Need for new ways to assess clinical competence, 244
ethicists, 852 Medical students’ clinical self-assessments compared with other
Teaching scientific integrity and responsible conduct of research, measures, 285
871 Class rank as a predictor of first-year residents’ competence, 295
A course on ethics in the biological sciences, 876 Comparing clerkship sites by comparing students’ performances, 298
Graduate teaching in principles of scientific integrity, 879 Critical thinking in preclinical course examinations, 303
List of resource materials on scientific integrity issues, 885 Twelve-year profile of students’ SAT scores, GPAs, and MCAT
scores, 306
Ethics issues Teaching physical diagnosis in a primary care setting and a
See also: Research, biomedical and health services; Scientific hospital setting, 311
integrity in research; Religion Measure of psychological androgyny to predict physicians’ decision
Litigation involving medical faculty and academic medical centers, making, 312
1950-1991, 7 Expert versus non-expert tutors in problem-based learning [let.
Modern medicine and Jewish ethics [bk. rev.], 39 with reply], 353
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Triple-jump examination as an assessment tool in a PBL Assessing resources needed to provide ambulatory care experiences
curriculum, 366 to medical students [let.], 202
Educating Medical Students [text of ACME— TRI Report}, June Elements of an effective medical school curriculum committee, 255
Supp. S1 Financial impact of Medicare fee schedule on a faculty practice in
Guidelines for estimating the real cost of an OSCE, 513 an academic medical center, 315
Importance of strong evaluation standards and procedures in Understanding and eradicating bias against women in medicine
training residents, 522 [commentary], 349
Faculty evaluators for a medical school curriculum, 526 Broader implications of new CME guidelines for commercial
A meta-analysis of evaluative research on problem-based learning, support [let.], 352
550 Educating Medical Students [text of ACME—TRI Report], June
Identifying marginal performers in a clerkship, 575 Supp. S1
Taking students’ course evaluations with a grain of salt [let.], 614 Guidelines for promoting meaningful innovation in academic
Issues involved in educating generalists [commentary], 667 medical centers, June Supp. S50
Ratings of internists by registered nurses, 680 Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June
Gender bias in preceptors’ ratings of medical students, 703 Supp. S55
Studying science in the context of ethics, Sept. Supp. S5 Faculty evaluators for a medical school curriculum, 526
Introduction to articles about use of the USMLE in medicai Tensions within the academic medical center, 585
education settings, 732 Three views of faculty tenure, 588
Background essential to proper use of results of the USMLE’s Physicians’ productivity and teaching responsibilities [let. with
Step 1 and Step 2, 734 reply], 611
The USMLE, the NBME subject examinations, and assessment of Background and advice to faculty serving on committees of
individual academic achievement, 740 inquiry concerning questions of research integrity, Sept. Supp.
Use of NBME and USMLE examinations to evaluate medical $100
education programs, 748 Introducing total quality management in an internal medicine
Use of the USMLE to select residents, 753 residency, 817
Use of NBME and USMLE scores [commentary], 778 Requirements for speakers at “promotional” educational activities
Evaluation of noncognitive professional traits of medical students, versus independent CME activities [let.], 841
799
Faculty practice
Relationships of ratings of clinical competence and ABIM scores
See also: Clinical instruction and clerkships; Faculty issues and
to certification status, Oct. Supp. $22
characteristics; Financial issues of academic medicine; Hospitals
Diagnostic accuracy as a function of case prototypicality, Oct.
Financial impact of Medicare fee schedule on a faculty practice in
Supp. S58
an academic medical center, 315
Influence of vignettes on EKG interpretation by third-year
Tensions within the academic medical center, 585
students, Oct. Supp. S61
Financial impact of Medicare fee schedule on a department of
Using clinician ratings to model score weights for a computer-
anesthesiology, 643
based clinical-simulation examination, Oct. Supp. S64
Basic issues in medical education, Oct. Supp. S89 Faculty Roster
Evaluating clinical excellence of faculty, 813 Faculty Roster funding renewed, 45
Introducing total quality management in an internal medicine Short description of Faculty Roster Teaching Hospital Alumni
residency, 817 Report, 539
What housestaff say they do versus what they do, 859
Examining efficacies of three types of performance feedback used Faculty teaching
with computer-based instruction on diagnosing abdominal pain, See also: Curriculum; Evaluation systems, methods, and issues;
862 Problem-based learning and related approaches
Medical student academic misconduct: implications of case law Physicians’ productivity and teaching responsibilities, 166 [let. in
and possible institutional responses, 887 response, 611]
Facilitator expertise and PBL in PBL and traditional curricula
Faculty development
[let.], 203
See: Faculty training and evaluation
Perceptions versus actuality in achieving goals of problem-based
Faculty issues, characteristics, and problems learning, 311
See also: Scientific integrity in research Expert versus non-expert tutors in problem-based learning [let.
Litigation involving medical faculty and academic medical centers, with reply], 353
1950-1991, 7 Clinical teaching by voluntary faculty [let.], 355
Impact on organizational culture of introducing computerized Overview of uses of SPs for teaching and evaluation of clinical
physician order entry at an academic medical center, 20 skills, 443 (highlights of group discussion on this topic, 451)
Impact on medical education of introducing computerized Major technicai issues involved in application of SPs, 454
physician order entry at an academic medical center, 25 (highlights of group discussion on this topic, 461)
Faculty Roster funding renewed, 45 Logistics of teaching with SPs, and related topics, 464 (highlights
Announcement of AAMC -Academic Physician collaboration, 45 of group discussion on these topics, 469)
Faculty status for clinician-educators: guidelines for evaluation Summary of AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and
and promotion, 126 evaluation of clinical skills, 471
Physicians’ productivity and teaching responsibilities, 166 [letter Educating Medical Students [text of ACME— TRI Report], June
in response, 611] Supp. S1
Findings about how well curriculum committees are working, 183 Guidelines for promoting meaningful innovation in academic
Innovative faculty appointment system, 190 medical centers, June Supp. S50
VOLUME 68 = NUMBER 12 ® DECEMBER 1993
Comparison of medical education data from 1980s and 1990s, June Federal government
Supp. S55 See: Financial issues of academic medicine; Health care reform;
Physicians’ productivity and teaching responsibilities [let. with Health care policy; Legislation, specific bills; National Policy
reply], 611 Perspectives; Research, biomedical and health services;
Ratings of internists by registered nurses, 680 Scientific integrity in research
Faculty development and academic vitality, 760
Influence ef tutors’ subject expertise on students’ effort and Fetal tissue research
achievement in problem-based learning, 784 Changes coming with advent of Clinton administration, 44
Learning climate and students’ achievement in a medicine Coalition urges lifting of ban on fetal tissue research, 45
clerkship, 811 AAMC applauds Clinton for lifting ban on fetal tissue research, 201
Introducing total quality management in an internal medicine
residency, 817 Financial issues of academic medicine
Brief group consultations for residents [let.], 843 See also: Health care costs; Hospitals; Medicare; Research,
Teaching scientific integrity and responsible conduct of research, biomedical and health services; and issues topics under academic
871 medicine, medical students, residents, and physicians
A course on ethics in the biological sciences, 876 Announcement of release of annual survey of housestaff stipends,
Graduate teaching in principles of scientific integrity, 879 benefits, and funding, 45
Using role models to increase students’ interest in primary care Medical school financing: comparing different types of schools and
[let.], 902 departments, 91 [correction on 236]
Financial impact of Medicare fee schedule on a faculty practice in
Faculty training and evaluation an academic medical center, 315
See also: Continuing medical education Curriculum change by legislative directive, 343
Faculty status for clinician-educators: guidelines for evaluation Evils of congressional pork-barreling of appropriations to
and promotion, 126 academic institutions, 346
Innovative faculty appointment system, 190 Welcome to AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and
Perceptions versus actuality in achieving goals of problem-based evaluation of clinical skills, 439
learning, 311 Introduction to AAMC conference on use of SPs in teaching and
Call to increase the accessibility of medical education information evaluation of clinical skills, 440
[let.], 355 Overview of uses of SPs for teaching and evaluation of clinical
Three views of faculty tenure, 588 skills, 443 (highlights of group discussion on this topic, 451)
Ratings of internists by registered nurses, 680 Major technical issues involved in application of SPs, 454
Faculty development and academic vitality, 760 (highlights of group discussion on this topic, 461)
Recognition of computer-based materials in schools’ promotion Logistics of teaching with SPs, and related topics, 464 (highlights
guidelines, Oct. Supp. S16 of group discussion or: these topics, 469)
Evaluating clinical excellence of faculty, 813 Educational debt, specialty choices, and practice intentions of
underrepresented-minority medical school graduates, 505
Family medicine-family practice Guidelines for estimating the real cost of an OSCE, 513
See also: Primary care issues and teaching Reflections on medical education reform, 518
Every medical school must have a department of family practice TRENDS-plus: a new look at applicant and matriculation data, 539
[let.], 50 Effect of debt level on residency preferences of graduating
Tools for primary care research [bk. rev.], 133 students, 570
Residents’ self-assessed competences during a two-year family Factors influencing students’ specialty choice, 572
practice program, 163 Tensions within the academic medical center, 585
Guide to teaching in ambulatory care setting [bk. rev.], 192 Financial impact of Medicare fee schedule on a department of
Is declining class size related to shortage of FM practitioners? [let. anesthesiology, 643
with reply], 271 Overview of AAMC position papers on health care reform, 661
Effect of training on family physicians’ management of asthma Academic medicine, the cornerstone of the U.S. health care
{let.], 274 system, 709
Declining interest of medical school graduates in generalist Goals and principles for health care reform, 713
specialties [commentary], 278 [letter in response, 670] Graduate medical education and health care reform, 717
Use of guided-discovery teaching by preceptors in family medicine, Health-related research issues and health care reform, 725
385 Financial performance of academic medical center hospitals, 729
Comparing academic performances of geriatricians and other Problem-based learning: have expectations been met? Oct. Supp.
family physicians and internists, 388 $79
Family practice physicians’ awareness of early intervention Relationship between indebtedness and the specialty choices of
legislation, 388 graduating medical students: 1993 update, 933
Doctors, their feelings, and doctor-patient relationship [bk. rev.], 657
Understanding the shortage of family medicine physicians [let. Foreign medical graduates
with reply], 669 Influence of candidates’ test selection on pass rates on ECFMG
Changing interest in family medicine and students’ academic certification exams, 150
performance, Oct. Supp. $52 Use of standardized-patient examinations in conjunction with
The imperative to establish family medicine departments, 896 licensure and certification, Oct. Supp. S1
Performance of family practice diplomates on recertification Predicting first-year performances of international medical
examinations, 912 graduates in an internal medicine residency, 856
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