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M Apprey

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PubMed1999

The Medical Academic Advancement Program at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

Since 1984 the University of Virginia School of Medicine has conducted the Medical Academic Advancement Program for minority and disadvantaged students interested in careers in medicine. The program is a six-week residential program for approximately 130 undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students per year. It emphasizes academic course work--biology, chemistry, physics, and essay writing--to prepare the participants for the Medical College Admission Test. Non-graded activities, such as a clinical medicine lecture series, clinical experiences, and a special lecture series, and special workshops are also offered. The participants take two simulated MCAT exams. Between 1984 and 1998, 1,497 students have participated in the program, with complete follow-up information available for 690 (46%). Of the 1,487 participants, 80 (5%) have graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and 174 (12%) from other medical schools; 44 (3%) are attending the medical school now, and 237 (16%) are at other medical schools; 44 (3%) have graduated from other health professions schools, and 54 (3%) are attending such schools. The retention rate for participants at the University of Virginia School of Medicine is 91% (that is, all but seven of the 80 who matriculated have been retained past the first year). The Medical Academic Advancement Program has been successful in increasing the number of underrepresented minority students matriculating into and continuing in medical education. Such programs warrant continued support and encouragement.

Education, Premedical↗
PubMed1994

Individual and group therapies as constructive continuous experiences.

We began this paper with the conceptualization that individual and group psychotherapies were potentially continuous just as internal and external experiences are co-extensive. We recognized Winnicott's "holding," "regression to dependence," and "The primary maternal preoccupation." In our specific context of individual and group therapies, a state of being, a new construct of one's self can be invented in ways that can overturn the received. Clinician and patient can invent a new state of being and new meaning. For our patient, individual therapy was experienced as impacted space where she could neither be nor invent new meaning with another. "Intimacy" as a problem could not be dealt with in individual work without the risk of decompensation. In group psychotherapy she found no such risks or congestion. Rather, she found space. She was dislodged and group psychotherapy received her by giving her an opportunity to renegotiate who hosts whom. She recognized that group was in the service of the human being and was able to absorb her intolerable conflicts and transfer them without danger to anyone. It was a trusting attitude to the surrounding and was motivated by connectedness toward others. As a result there can be a state of being and the real possibility of thinking as one's own self and for one's self in the midst of others without losing one's newly established self. In a word she could become. Accordingly, our patient was able to work towards amelioration of psychopathological formations and was ready to make appropriate selection for the necessary therapy.

Adult↗
PubMed1982

The effort to separate in a pubertal Mormon convert: a terminal profile.

The use of psychoanalytic profile to observe psychopathology in a pubertal boy is illustrated. Behind the choice of this instrument for observing human behavior in treatment lies the relevant emphasis on studying and clarifying developmental vicissitudes and issues around the struggles of the pubertal boy with the rekindling of early behavioral attitudes and concerns, especially of pre-oedipal and oedipal incestuous concerns--the negotiation of which sould be a platform for working towards the attainment of an adaptive sexual organization in adolescence. The profile attempts to demonstrate with clinical material how very important it is to observe a complex network of both conscious and unconscious phenomena to get a deeper and broader understanding of a pubertal boy's struggles.

Adolescent↗