Interest in the medical school as an employment setting for psychologists has increased in keeping with a number of recent developments in the field of behavioral medicine. The formation of Division 38 of the American Psychological Association, Health Psychology, and the launching of the Journal of Behavioral Medicine reflect heightened attention to medical psychology. The rate of growth of psychologists in U.S. schools of medicine has outstripped indices of growth and emplbyment opportunities for psychologists in most other settings.Recent articles have explored the growing number of staff psychologists in U.S. medical schools , the pattern of organizational structures for psychologists in schools of medicine and associated professional roles and attitudes (Nathan, Millham, & Lubin, 1979), the longitudinal trends reflected in three national surveys of medical school psychologists and their professional activities (Nathan, Lubin, Matarazzo, & Persley, 1979), the possible indicators of sex bias in the hiring and promotion of female psychologists in medical schools (Nathan, Rouce, & Lubin, 1979), and the voting memberships of psychologists on the staffs of university-affiliated hospitals .The purpose of this communication is to present results from analyses correlating the number of psychologists employed in the 115 U.S. medical schools in 1977 with some of the schools' demographic characteristics, as well as the schools' perceived reputations.
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