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Colchicine/poisoning , Suicide , Adolescent , Adult , Colchicine/adverse effects , Colchicine/therapeutic use , Female , Gout/drug therapy , Humans , Male , Sex Factors , Suicide/psychologyABSTRACT
The Independent Study Program (ISP) at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is described and its objectives are specified. Experimental (ISP) students and two matched (non-ISP students from the same class) groups were studied in two successive second-year medical school classes. Data were gathered only post-ISP for the first class and both pre- and post-ISP for the second. The data included measures of achievement, personality characteristics, and academic-professional experience. Experimental and control groups were not significantly different on achievement and academic-professional measures but did differ on certain measures of personality and values. The groups also differed on their evaluations of curriculum and reports of study habits. Fache ISP program was considered, and it was found that the ISP is less expensive of faculty time than is the regular curriculum but involves higher nonfaculty costs.
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Curriculum , Education, Medical, Undergraduate , Teaching/methods , Achievement , Attitude , Career Choice , Costs and Cost Analysis , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Faculty, Medical , Humans , New York , Personal Satisfaction , Personality Inventory , Social Environment , Students, Medical , Time FactorsABSTRACT
This paper considers data on hysterical neurosis, conversion type from the Monroe County (New York) Cumulative Psychiatric Case Register, from the Psychiatric Case Register in Iceland, and from a psychiatric consultation service in a university teaching general hospital in Monroe County (New York) during the period 1960 to 1969. The rate of hysterical neurosis, conversion type in Monroe County during this period was 22 per 100,000 per year, whereas in Iceland it was 11 per 100,000 per year. It was highest for women, non-whites and those of low social economic status. The rate of hysterical neurosis, conversion type and "probable" hysterical neurosis, conversion type combined among patients seen in psychiatric consultation was 4.5%. The most often noted diagnostic criteria were inconsistency with somatic process and precipitation of symptoms by psychological stress. Most patients had more than one conversion symptom at the same time. Pain was the most common symptom. The majority of patients had an accompanying organic or functional illness.
