The hypothesis that the demand for dental education has affected or will negatively affect the availability of dental care is tested by examining a series of questions relating to students, faculty, schools of dentistry and their parent universities, and manpower. (MSE)

The declining medical school applicant pool is examined as it affects or is affected by the profession itself, medical education, and the changing economics of health care delivery. (MSE)

To stay healthy, legal education will have to enhance greatly its information, finance, and planning capacities. In the long run, it is the interplay between the supply of aspiring students and the demand for graduates' services that provides the key to well-being of training for a profession like law. (MSE)

National developments and ways national dental manpower analyzes and forecasts may affect a dental school's determination of its entering class size are discussed. Health manpower development, dentistry changes, projections of supply and demand, forecasting, weaknesses in forecasts and predictions, and dental school use of national analyses are…

A study of the dental school applicant pool, measured by the number of individuals taking one of two standardized dental school entrance examinations, found substantial changes in the last 15 years. Applicant pool differences in Canada and the United States and probable reasons for those differences were also analyzed. (MSE)

Issues in postdoctoral dental education and distinctions between the general practice residency and the advanced education program in general dentistry include: the need for practitioners and further specialization in the work force, society's health care needs, and changes in the health care industry, dental education, dental departments, and…

The American Association of Dental Schools' policy statement concerning expansion of postdoctoral general dentistry (PGD) training looks at the association's history, purpose, impact, kinds and quantity of student openings available, demand for training, models for expansion, mandatory training in Europe, accreditation, and finance.…

Trends in nursing toward professionalization and specialization are examined along with the implications of the general economic climate, national politics, and changing health care delivery for change in nursing education. (MSE)

Presents trend data concerning the current number of programs and positions in postdoctoral dental education, and examines applicant trends in postdoctoral dental education, as background for examining needs and issues that will emerge as a mandatory year of postdoctoral dental education is implemented. Factors influencing student plans to pursue…

An analysis of the state of postdoctoral clinical dental training looks at current enrollment level and trends, trends in faculty positions and demand for them, student characteristics, student objectives in pursuing postdoctoral education, trends in specialty and general practice, and implications for future postdoctoral general dentistry…

Issues and trends affecting professional education for public health careers are examined, including specialization shortages, physician faculty shortages, declining federal support, and changing student demographics. (MSE)

Future demand for professional education is examined through demographic trends, enrollment trends, professional manpower demands, the role of values and attitudes, and the current responses of the professional schools to change. (MSE)