Automatic indexing of abstracts via natural-language processing using a simple thesaurus.

The authors describe CLARIT processing as an approach to automatic indexing. They also explore two elements of the indexing process, identifying concepts in text and selecting concepts to reflect the perspective of a domain.

Toward representations for medical concepts.

The authors characterize the problems inherent to mapping across or combining terms from different vocabularies, focusing especially on MeSH and SNOMED. They also describe the exploration of the development of a frame-based representation of SNOMED.

Clerkship site and duration: do they influence student performance?

At the School of Medicine of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, the surgical clerkship became mandatory in 1976. From the academic years 1976 through 1979, it was a 6-week program. Since the fall of 1979, it has been a 12-week program.