Contents |
Part 1: Events and trends influencing medical students -- Developments affecting medical education since 1930 -- Predictions about medical students through the year 2000 -- Part 2: Personal, academic, and socioeconomic characteristics of medical students from application to graduation -- First-year applicants -- Transfer applicants -- Applicant screening and student selection -- Enrolled students -- Dropouts and repeaters -- Graduates, career choices, and supply and demand -- Women and minorities in an era of growing opportunity -- Part 3: Services and activities affecting medical student characteristics and progress -- Financial aid and educational costs -- Student participation in organizations and institutional policy making -- Expanding role of student services in medical education -- Part 4: Medical students of the eighties and nineties -- Summary and recommendations for fostering the development of future physicians -- Appendix A: Results of 1981 AACR Delphi survey -- Appendix B: Organizations serving premedical and medical students -- Description of supplement to physicians in the making. |