Discusses the changes that a comprehensive program of national health insurance will instigate in health occupations education. (HS)

The staff of the University of Colorado Child Health Associate Program critically reviewed the effectiveness of the program's structure and content during an intensive two-day seminar. Focus was on basic and clinical sciences, psychosocial skills, and proficiency testing, and the evaluations were used to improve the program. (Editor/LBH)

Traditionally, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants have been trained separately. In l977, the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of California, Davis, and the Primary Care Associate Program at Stanford University merged clinical curricula. The cooperative program is described and its first year evaluated. (Author/JMD)

The role of medical schools and teaching hospitals in health care and the prospects for developing a rational system. (HS)

Traditional accounting reports do not reveal the teaching hospitals' investments in medical education. (Author)

Discusses Area Health Education Centers (AHEC), satellites of the university health science centers with the function to maintain a community hospital, to conduct educational programs, and to conduct limited research programs. (Author/PG)

The objectives of this study were to: (1) describe the activities of clerks, (2) identify teaching and learning experiences, and (3) to describe the effects of career selection with respect to responsibility, skill development, and enjoyment of the program. (Editor)

Examines some trends and problems of governance in relation to collegial, bureaucratic, corporate and political models. (Author)

Advancement of human capability is heavily related to expenditures on health education, research and development. (Author)