Examines from a historical perspective the effectiveness of medical school educational programs that are directed toward influencing patterns of health care delivery. (Author)

Discusses the importance of including humanities, social sciences, family planning, health education, and community health programs in premedical or medical education. (Author/PG)

The Duke University School of Medicine conducts a health testing and promotion program to increase its students' awareness of their own health. The long-term goal is to prevent them from becoming impaired, as physicians, by emotional problems or addiction to alcohol or other drugs. (Author/MSE)

Describes a Latin American project to create a complete set of self-contained materials for the first half of a post high school health and medical education. (Author/PG)

Systematic collaborative research is needed to find ways to extend community comprehensive health care more equitably to all citizens. (IR)

The 3 problems which are being attacked through state funding of residency training programs are: (1) lack of physicians in rural areas; (2) the need for more primary care physicians; and (3) the need to retain a larger percentage of physicians in the states which provide their medical education. (Author/PG)

Calls for the establishment of a Council of Health Advisors to serve the President of the United States. (IR)

University medical centers must be prepared to produce additional qualified manpower and health care programs to be required by renewed health manpower legislation. (IR)