Point and Click CME: The Future of Continuing Medical Education Natural disasters can wreak particular havoc on academic medical centers where a loss of power can result in the shutdown of lifesaving machines and impassable roads can mean no medical supply deliveries.

Med Student Chronicles Her Struggle With Anorexia In 1996, 29-year-old Lori Gottlieb went through what she jokingly describes as her "quarter-life crisis." A successful Hollywood executive, Gott-lieb was growing dissatisfied with the entertainment industry.

Academic Medicine Goes Online The electronic edition is free to all Web users throughout 2000. Beginning in 2001, access will be restricted to subscribers.

Academic Medical Centers Confront Natural Disasters Head-on Natural disasters can wreak particular havoc on academic medical centers where a loss of power can result in the shutdown of lifesaving machines and impassable roads can mean no medical supply deliveries.

Group on Faculty Practice The AAMC's 12 professional development groups are the point of entry for many AAMC constituents. Each month this year, the AAMC Reporter will describe a group's activities.

The Caring Side of Medicine: Reaching Out to Communities A father takes his gravely ill 3-year-old to a specialist in Guatemala City. The long journey from the jungle to the city drains him physically and financially, while being in an unfriendly city with strange ways and an unfamiliar language exhausts him emotionally.

Grand Prize Winner: Shira Shavit, fourth-year medical student, Rush Medical College

This photograph was the winning entry in the AAMC Reporter's 2000-2001 photography contest, "The Caring Side of Medicine: Reaching Out to Communities." The 10 entries receiving honorable mention will be showcased in upcoming issues of the AAMC Reporter.

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