“…He found the need to develop a course for improving reading comprehension, reading rate, vocabulary, note-taking, report writing, and examination review, but found that transfer of learning was poor unless material directly applicable to medical courses was utilized. Plagge (1974) describes a program instituted at the University of Illinois in 1969 for matriculating minority medical students with low entrance credentials. The "Medical Opportunities Program" provided a competency-based curriculum in which faculty and upperclass advisors were employed to evaluate student problems, determine tutorial need, offer advice, and assemble teaching-learning exams.…”