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Hardin, Karol – Hispania, 2015
The US health care system faces linguistic challenges. Disparities in language-concordant care for Spanish speakers persist due to current demographics and a paucity of bilingual providers. A proliferation of courses in Spanish for health care professions suggests that universities and post-graduate institutions are attempting to meet this need;…
Descriptors: Spanish, Medical Education, Educational Quality, Second Language Learning
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Stark, Robin; Mandl, Heinz – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
The discussion of the gap between theory and practice has a long tradition in educational psychology and especially in research on learning and instruction. Starting with a short analysis of more or less elaborated approaches focusing on this problem, a complex procedure called "integrative research approach", specialized in reducing the gap…
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Psychology, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Methodology
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Hanlon, Mark J. – Journal of Medical Education, 1985
A review of literature on attitudes toward alcoholism, measurement of increased knowledge about alcoholism, the status of training in alcoholism, descriptions of alcoholism training programs, and methodological approaches to assessing such programs is presented. The focus of training, it is argued, should be on experiential/clinical approaches.…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Higher Education, Literature Reviews, Medical Education
Kelleher, Kathleen – Teleconference, The Business Communication Magazine, 1983
This report describes educational applications of slow-scan television (SSTV) teleconferencing, which uses a video signal generated from a standard, low-cost, industrial television camera and compressed to a bandwidth suitable for transmission over telephone lines. Following a brief explanation of the capabilities of SSTV and the required…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Information Networks
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And Others; Fisher, James W. – Journal of Medical Education, 1980
A survey is reported that was undertaken by the Association for Medical School Pharmacology to assess the status of developing clinical pharmacology programs in medical schools in the United States and Canada and to determine why some schools have been unable to mount such programs. Survey questions are included. (Author/JMD)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Financial Support, Higher Education, Medical Education
Commission of the European Communities, Brussels (Belgium). Directorate-General for Education and Culture. – 2002
This document profiles programs in the fields of health and medicine that are offered through the European Commission's Leonardo da Vinci program. The following programs are profiled: (1) CYTOTRAIN (a transnational vocational training program in cervical cancer screening); (2) Apollo (a program of open and distance learning for paramedical…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Distance Education