An Integrated Approach for Evaluating Students' Achievement of Clinical Objectives

During the clinical phase of undergraduate medical education (UME) students are often geographically dispersed and assigned to preceptors throughout the community. Monitoring, documenting, and evaluating their clinical experiences and achievement of clinical objectives in this venue becomes a challenge, especially for large UME programs. The purpose of this manuscript is to discuss a method for developing and implementing a school-wide evaluation system for the clinical phase of UME. This type of evaluation system links students' clinical experiential data with the objectives of a clerkship, using technological advances, such as the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Internet, and intranet. Clerkship directors are provided real-time reports on student's progress toward achieving clerkship objectives and are able to monitor the clinical activities of the clerkship. Students on the other hand, will be empowered to take more control of their educational experiences by monitoring their own progress

Teaching Tax Law after Tax Reform

Professor Ginsburg compares the teaching of individual income taxation before and after the extensive statutory revisions of the 1980s. The pervasive question, what is income, remains the central inquiry in the basic tax course, he observes, and the great classifications, personal versus commercial and current versus capital, unavoidably persist. The development in tax law that has most significantly changed the way the subject is taught, he believes, is embodied in the recent enactment of a variety of Internal Revenue Code provisions which, while facially inconsistent in their approach to particular cases, have in common an appreciation of differences in present values. The generalized question that now dominates much of tax teaching, when is income, is explored in his paper, as in the tax course, through a series of hypothetical cases designed to demonstrate that what appear to be disparate problems in fact are variations on a single theme, and that the tax law\u27s seemingly disparate resolutions often reach economically equivalent results

Employment Changes Play Major Role in Access to Employer Health Coverage

Highlights findings on the factors that drive short-term changes in employer-sponsored health insurance coverage, including the rising cost of health insurance and changes in employment rates and availability of better jobs during macroeconomic cycles

Graduate Recital: Fonda D. Ginsburg, Percussion

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Afternoon December 4, 1993 12:30p.m

Mutations That Render Von Willebrand Factor (Vwf) Resistant To Adamts13 Cleavage

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106087/1/jth00895.pd

Capacity Bounded Grammars and Petri Nets

A capacity bounded grammar is a grammar whose derivations are restricted by assigning a bound to the number of every nonterminal symbol in the sentential forms. In the paper the generative power and closure properties of capacity bounded grammars and their Petri net controlled counterparts are investigated