This study shows inconsistencies in recording diseases in a logbook by students compared with doctors. In particular the diseases which are present at a department are under-reported by students. Supervision and feedback are important mechanisms to optimize the students' use of (1) all diseases which could be encountered and (2) the logbook.

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T m s article is a summary of four validation studies conducted during 1951-1955. Subjects participating in these studies were 171 young females, recently graduated from high school, who were enrolled in four separate, and successive, classes in a work-study type of stenographer training program. As trainees, these individuals attended business school four hours a day, five days a week, over a period of 38 weeks-usually beginning the latter part of June of each year. The remaining four hours a day were spent in business offices of the Du Pont Company at clerical tasks commensurate with ability. Throughout the training period, trainees were assigned to business offices in teams of two, so that one could be at work while the other attended school. At noon, teammates exchanged places.Certain selection techniques, such as psychological testing and interviewing, were used as an aid in determining qual5cations of applicants for employment. Other techniques, including a four-page biographical inventory and a one-page teachers' appraisal blank, were also used, not as an aid to selection, but for the sole purpose of obtaining additional, Validation studies of selection techniques represent one area of research for which staff members of the Personnel Research Section are responsible. A second major area of research is the study of interpersonal relationships within an organiaation. 491 2 Currently, being accepted for the training program represents a potential cash value to each trainee of $1,240 above earned salary. Inquiries concerning specific details of the program should be addressed to Manager, Personnel Division, Employee

The Dutch national objectives for the education of medical doctors (in terms of diseases), expressed in the form of a student compiled logbook, must be attained at the time of graduation. The diseases that are required are divided into the categories 'essential' and 'compulsory choice'. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the inpatient department of internal nedicine offers medical students sufficient diseases during two four-week periods in the clerkship, such that the required diseases related to Internal Medicine as described in our logbook can be met. At five subdivisions, medical doctors recorded the diseases available for students. Of the 37 'essential' diseases students may be expected to encounter during one four-week stay in the department: 57% in internal medicine-I; 55% in internal medicine-II; 47% in nephrology; 41% in respiratory medicine; 13% in oncology. Of the 65 'compulsory choice' diseases the number of diseases encountered is respectively: 78%; 57%; 41%; 34%; 33%. We conclude that a considerable number of the diseases required by the Blueprint and therefore by the government is available in two four-week periods in the inpatient clerkship, when this comprises a stay at a general subdivision and a specialist-oriented subdivision. To be more precise about the fulfilment of the logbook requirements, further research is necessary.