Studies focusing on the dying patient expose contaminating aspects of death and dying in our society. It will be argued that persons involved with the dying are sometimes "guilty by association." We must enlighten our understanding of all persons who are touched by death in this society. (Author)

A methodology currently being used to teach "appropriate behaviors" to senior pharmacy students involves having the student assume the role of the pharmacist in a simulated pharmacist-patient interaction. The interactions are video-taped for later class analysis. (LBH)

Analysis of case study annotations by medical students showed that general practitioners demanded much greater consideration by the student of the patient, his family and his environment. Physicians and surgeons tended to be more disease oriented. Expectations and attitudes of teachers are diverse, which highlights the case study as an educational…

The symbolic and communicative aspects of illness and treatment are examined. A number of factors that complicate interpersonal communication are identified and found to exist in their most extreme form in medical settings. Suggestions are offered to help physicians become more sensitive to the symbolic aspects of illness. (Editor/LBH)

This issue, primarily written in French, contains articles by researchers in the fields of linguistics and social sciences and by health care professionals. The articles include the following: "The Collective Working Out of Medical Knowledge" (Lorenza Mondada); "Involvement and Constraint in a Surgical Consultation Room"…

This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) presents an overview of the role and efficacy of group therapy in substance abuse treatment. TIPs are best-practice guidelines for the treatment of substance use disorders that make the latest research in substance abuse treatment available to counselors and educators. The content was generated by a panel…

Closed-circuit television (CCTV) is a promising technology used by many medical centers to support health education activities for patients and their families. It may provide one method of reaching multiple patients at various times and locations, providing consistent, easily repeated information in a low stress manner, but it is unclear how much…

Recent discussion of the ethical problems of biomedical human experimentation has drawn attention to the responsibility of the medical schools for training new clinical investigators and for safeguarding the rights and welfare of the subjects of clinical research conducted in the medical schools and their affiliated hospitals. (Author)

Discusses mental illness, its treatment within the black community, and the role of black professionals in that community. (RK)

A curriculum proposed as a framework for the education of all generalists" practicing in primary health care. (IR)

Reviewed studies of the group curative process that have employed Yalom's description of group curative factors. The studies reviewed demonstrated consistency regarding the highly ranked curative factors, and raised issues regarding interrelatedness and valuing of the factors across varying groups. (JAC)

A program of videotaping residents interacting with patients is discussed and evaluated at the three levels of participation: teaching faculty, student, and staff. Most found the method beneficial, with the most positive aspects being the suggestions from behavioral and nonbehavioral science faculty and the opportunity to see oneself interacting…

"Clinical Nutrition in an Interdisciplinary Setting" is a course designed to introduce basic nutrition knowledge and concepts of nutritional assessment, counseling, and intervention in the clinical care of patients. Provides a brief course overview and descriptions of its development, use, and preliminary evaluation of the patient simulation…