I am a cognitive psychologist, member of OUHSC Oklahoma City Faculty, and primarily I do research on decision making. The research includes decision analysis and cost effectiveness analysis (how physicians OUGHT to treat), descriptions of physician decision making (how they DO treat) and descriptions of patient decision making. The focus of these descriptions is how people learn and use the concepts relevant to the decision theory concepts - probability of diagnosis, probability of outcomes, value of outcomes, and so on. I am interested in educating physicians in the concepts of decision analysis, evidence based medicine, the statistical analysis of data. I have some excel spreadsheets, that illustrate, and also do, some of the basic calculations needed for this way of thinking, and they can be downloaded at http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/cdmcalc.htm . There are good tutorials for some of these, made with the help of Rob Freedman at Information Technology on campus. I am involved in the summer research program for first year medical students, the Future Physicians for Oklahoma Research Track. We do not do the fund raising, but when we have a student who is affiliated with a distant cite, they get oriented here and then do their research project at that cite, often in collaboration with the host physician. Rob Robert M. Hamm, PhD Clinical Decision Making Program Department of Family and Preventive Medicine University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 900 NE 10th St, Oklahoma City OK 73104 405/271-8000 ext 32306 [log in to unmask] http://www.fammed.ouhsc.edu/robhamm/index.htm