Word: interning
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Before they can intern or practice in the U.S., American graduates of foreign schools must pass a special examination administered by the Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates. Some American students feel that the tests, required by the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, discriminate against those who fail to gain admission to U.S. medical schools. Others, noting the shortage of physicians in the U.S., see an A.M.A. plot to protect the practices-and incomes-of American-trained physicians. Actually, the test is not insurmountable for most U.S. students trained in good foreign schools; it is primarily designed...
...first participant in the program is Sergeant John Amos of Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford. Amos will begin a job Monday as an administrative intern with the Cambridge Hospital Community Medicine program...
Characterizing the grading controversy as nor that is common to all faculties and schools. Blacklow pointed to the fact that internship committees are looking for slightly different qualities than college admission committees, since an intern is a practicing doctor and not actually a student. More extensive evaluations than a letter grade, therefore, are more important for medical students, Blacklow said. Yale Medical School has not given grades for a number of years, he added...
...their relationship to the human consciousness. Weil has grown up with the drug scene; he began when Leary and Alpent did, experimenting with mescaline as a freshman in Claverly. He wrote papers for Riesman on drugs in American society and went on to Harvard Medical School. As an intern Weil treated the "victims" of the Haight in San Francisco. In 1968 he conducted the first thorough, objective study of marijuana in this country since 1946; the results, though they now seem old hat, caught most experts completely off guard...
...Police, office personnel, and elected officials, well prepared for militant demonstrations, were suspicious of the long-haired delegation. Capitol Hill guards thoroughly inspected all handbags and packages that were brought into the Congressional office buildings. One student observer who had spent several summers on the Hill as a Senate intern noted that the number of police assigned to the Capitol was remarkably high, especially given the incidence of real crime in other parts of the city...