Showing papers in "Academic Medicine in 1969"

Effectiveness of a Simulator in Training Anesthesiology Residents.

Abstract: The educational potential of a computer-controlled patient simulator was tested by the University of Southern California School of Medicine. The results of the experiment suggest unequivocally that there is a twofold advantage to the use of such a simulator in training anesthesiology residents in the skill of endotracheal intubation: (a) residents achieve proficiency levels in a smaller number of elapsed days of training, thus effecting a saving of time in the training of personnel, and (b) residents achieve a proficiency level in a smaller number of trials in the operating room, thus posing significantly less threat to patient safety. The small number of subjects in the study and the large within-group variability were responsible for a lack of statistical significance in 4 of 6 of the analyses performed; however, all differences were substantial and in the hypothesized direction. Thus, despite the narrowly circumscribed tasks to be learned by the experimental subjects, the findings suggest that the use of simulation devices should be considered in planning for future education and training not only in medicine but in other health care professions as well.

The genetic implications of family planning.

Abstract: The dysgenic effects of birth control are not easily measured and tend to be obscured by environmental changes and reduced by the spread of birth control to the population at large. Since the adaptation of birth control is usually greatest among older women of high parity mutations and congenital defects are reduced. Because of the opposite forces at work the true genetic implications of family planning are difficult to evaluate.

Family planning in Nigeria.

Abstract: The Family Planning Council of Nigeria which is a voluntary organization sponsored by the National Council of Women of Nigeria is involved in the family planning programs in Nigeria working in conjuction with the Department of Community Health of the Lagos University College of Medicine. The Family Planning Council was inaugurated in 1964. With the financial support of the Population Council a postpartum program is in the process of being established at the Island Maternity Hospital which has about 25000 deliveries per year. A KAP Survey of Family Planning was performed in 1966 in Lagos by the Department of Community Health. Major current problem is that of getting the branches of the Family Planning Council to function with adequately trained personnel.