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Factors that help determine physicians' practice locations and specialties were listed by 396 students and 103 medical school faculty members at the University of Alabama School of Medicine. The students preferred practice locations similar in size to their hometowns. Their specialty choices were closely related to both practice location preferences and hometown sizes. However, there was a tendency among the students to prefer a small city (20,000 to 100,000 population) practice location irrespective of their hometown sizes or specialty choices. Factors such as spouse's preference, proximity of relatives, and financial incentives were not related to the students' practice location preferences. Faculty members reported they believed that medical education biases students toward urban and nonprimary care practice, and one-third of them said that they were role models for the students' specialty choices. However, the students said faculty members had little influence on their specialty choices while acknowledging the importance of clinical experiences. In general, Alabama medical students are similar to medical students elsewhere with respect to determinants of practice location preference.

A census involving several major journals was conducted to survey the content and scope of the experimental analysis of human behavior. While the percentage of reports involving human subjects published each year in JEAB has lacked consistency, it was shown that JEAB has been the primary outlet for human work among the journals surveyed. Few areas of interest within the study of human behavior have received extensive scrutiny. The normal adult (typically undergraduate students) has been the preferred subject for human research. The results of a citation analysis of JEAB reports featuring human research are also presented.