Indiana University Medicine Spring, 1999

Featured Articles: • Young, Restless & At Risk • Beyond Multiple Choice • The Complete Pediatrician • Mixing It Up About the Cover: Indiana illustrator and fine artist Rob Harrell's oil painting of a teenage girl "lighting up" reflects the attitudes so typical of adolescence, when, in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, "Youth is wholly experimental."

INDIANA UNIVERSITY MEDICINE
Spring, 1999

Table of Contents

From The Dean

Dean Robert Holden, MD ('63)
Cultural permissiveness that glorifies risk-taking exacerbates the health challenges facing our youth. Physicians can and must intervene to promote health by providing behavioral choices that will be attractive to adolescents.

Features

Young, Restless & At Risk
Biological, social and behavioral factors converge in the health problems facing today's youth. Knowing more about how and why they take risks will help adolescent medicine specialists design interventions that work.

Beyond Multiple Choice
IUSM is among a handful of schools natinally to implement a competency-based curriculum. Traditional offerings are augmented with a focus on interpersonal skills and additinal opportunities for clinical experience.

The Complete Pediatrician
Abraham Jacobi Award holder Morris Green, MD, '44, will add his voice to the American Academy of Pediatrics' new oral history program.

Mixing It Up

Medically based fitness programs at The National Institute for Fitness and Sport offer unique benefits to the healthy and the health-conscious.

Viewpoint

Stephen Jay, MD '66, lays out the facts and figures on teen tobacco addiction. . .and how physicians, parents and communities can intervene.

News & Notes

New Indiana University*Methodist Family Practice Center; IU drug analysis lab named for 2002 Olympics; new Department of Public Health housed in the School of Medicine.

Alumni News

The place to look for news of your classmates...and to share your own!

In Memoriam

Event Calendar

American College of Cardiology Reception
National Residency Match Day
School of Medicine Graduation
Spring Medical Alumni Weekend
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists

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