In 1971, the National Board of Medical Examiners appointed a Committee on Goals and Priorities, with a charge to provide advice, counsel, and recommendations relative to the Board's future directions. The report of the Committee, "Evaluation in the Continuum of Medical Education", was published as a monograph in 1973. It addressed itself to issues of evaluation, certification, licensure, and accreditation throughout the entire spectrum of medical education-undergraduate, graduate, and continuing. This paper, by the chairman of the Committee which authored the report, provides a review of: (a) the trends in medical eduction which formed the basis of the remmendations, (b) the recommendations themselves, (c) reactions to the report subsequent to its publication, and (d) actions taken by various groups relating to issues discussed in the report. It concludes with a discussion of anticipated changes in graduate medical education raises questions of the implications of these changes to the specialty of Aenesthesiology.

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Female rats at the body weight plateau which responded to 13 daily injections of 0.4 mg of growth hormone by greater weight gain per gram of food had a decreased concentration of lipid aldehydes in blood plasma, an increased concentration in liver, and no change in intestine, compared with control rats given isotonic saline.