In recent years it has been increasingly noted that health sciences, services and education may look to the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology, sociology and anthropology, for the techniques and methods which will lead to continued growth and progress in the health fields. In September, 1957, the Association of American Medical Colleges published The Appraisal of Applicants to Medical Schools, which is the report of the Fourth Teaching Institute of the Association. This Institute was one of two sponsored by the Association on the general topic, "Evaluation of the Student." The second was held at Atlantic City in the fall of 1957 under the sub-heading, "The Ecology of the Medical Student." In the first of these Institutes, in the words of George Packer Benny, "medical deans and teachers opened the doors of their medical schools to their university colleagues in psychology. . . ." and having done so found vigorous stimulation to seek answers along novel and different pathways in their considerations of the problems inherent in student evaluation.
Medical student evaluation of teachers and curriculum