Data for this study were collected during a comparative, longitudinal evaluation of a family medicine fellowship program covering the years 1979-87. The physician sample included 90 family physicians who had received fellowship training and 113 control physicians who have not participated in a fellowship training program. (MLW)

Performance by medical school sophomores (N=106) on higher-order questions in a second year introductory medicine course did not correlate with perceived performance in subsequent clerkships any better than did performance on fact-recall items. The use of multiple clinical simulations may emerge as the only satisfactory controlled assay of…

This study examined academic performance, indebtedness, delayed graduation, and predictors of licensing exam performance of 140 Asian-American and 2,269 white graduates of the Jefferson Medical College (Pennsylvania). Results found that the Medical College Admission Test reading score was the major predictor of later performance for Asian-American…