Editorial
- Medical education and the National Boards
Robert A. Chase. M.D.
Articles
- A history of life expectancy in two developed countries
Nathan Hiatt, M.D., and Jonathan R. Hiatt, M.D. - Western Norwegian medicine: From Hansen to Haukeland
Frank John Papatheofanis, Ph.D., M.D. - The role of National Board examinations in medical education
Henry M. Seidel, M.D. - The physician in contemporary opera: Three divergent approaches to the doctor-patient relationship
Erik K. St. Louis - Malaise in the medical schools
Fred Rapp, Ph.D. - Medical science as magic and metaphor: Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain
Charles R. King, M.D. - A problem in academic internal medicine: We have taken the teaching out of the teaching hospital
A. Jay Block. M.D. - Adventurism in biomedical science: Washington University-Monsanto Program in Biotechnology
Jeffrey I. Gordon, M.D. - Abandoning the lecture: Curriculum reform in the introduction to clinical medicine
Paul L. Kimmel. M.D. - Scientific writing and four contributors
Joseph M. Miller, M.D.
Poetry
- The Medusa
George Young, M.D.
Features
- Alpha Omega Alpha Student Research Fellowship Awards
- Alpha Omega Alpha Distinguished Teacher Awards
- Questions and reflections
- Letters to the editor
- A letter to William Carlos Williams
George Young, M.D. - The physician at the movies
- Past and present: The family doctor
- Book reviews
- Alpha Omega Alpha roll of chapters
