Discussions at this 1968 annual conference focused on the proposed official draft of standards of fair conduct and voluntary cooperation in continuing legal education (CLE); CLE goals and the means for attaining them; and a proposed program of general courses, possibly compulsory, designed to bridge the gap between study and practice among newly…

Discusses topics, issues, and goals related to professional continuing education in engineering. One goal is for universities to add continuing education to their charter, alongside undergraduate and graduate training. Ways to start such programs are also discussed, examining scope of programs, teaching methods, background updating, course…

We in continuing education must define and refine our philosophical commitments based on our parent organization's philosophy, the mandates from professional organizations, and our own professional value systems. (Author)

Model constructs of the relationship of program needs to educational objective setting in medical continuing education program development were outlined. Utilizing an inductive method of discovering theory as the major research method, five procedural models were derived. Data were collected from twenty respondents from ten university medical…

Introduction: This study investigates the use of a commitment to change (CTC) instrument as an integral approach to continuing medical education (CME) planning, implementation, and evaluation and as a means of facilitating physician behavior change. Methods: Descriptive statistics and grounded theory methods were employed. Data were collected from…

Techniques for determining the contents of professional continuing education are compared, and considerations in the development of professional continuing education programs in any field are discussed in the context of experience with planning programs in medicine and pharmacy. (MSE)

Ways in which the Health Education Consortium has determined and is meeting the continuing education and inservice education needs of hospital personnel in Northwest Mississippi are described. (MS)

This guidebook is written to assist groups planning to create a responsive and efficient teacher center. It includes a general description of teacher centers, goal options, steps in setting up and staffing teacher centers, program management, and facility planning. Examples of work materials, equipment, catalogues, and curriculum materials are…

The purpose of this study was to construct a model for the design, development, and direction of continuing education programs for registered nurses at John C. Calhoun Community College. The model was based on data from various professional conferences; a review of the literature on continuing education in general and concepts of learning theory;…

The need for social work professionals to remain current is addressed. The study, using a panel of 121 social workers and others, achieved a level of consensus relative to theories, methodologies, and content areas and then projected a functional model useful for intermediate and long-range program planning. (Author/MLW)

This monograph, organized in two major parts, covers the role of educational needs assessment in adult education and its role in continuing medical education (CME). The first part discusses the concept of educational need and its relationship to classic program planning models and naturalistic program planning. It then covers various assessment…

Guidelines and goals are offered for pharmacy's future continuing education efforts. They concern program philosophy, goals, quality control, accessibility to pharmacists, interdisciplinary programing, shared responsibilities, funding, and academic credit. (JMD)

Program goals, designs, and accomplishments in the area of second-step nursing education is the topic of this report of a conference attended by over 125 nursing educators, administrators, and graduate students. (Second-step nursing education encompasses postlicensure upper-division baccalaureate programs expressly designed for registered nurses.)…