Career technical education (CTE) has evolved markedly over the past century to provide a viable avenue for high school students who may seek an alternative and successful academic path that leads to a well-paid future career in the workforce. Recent studies have found that Career and Technology Education can lower dropout rates among high school…

Over the past year, the COVID-19 global pandemic has highlighted the critical role that health professionals play in our society. This report looks closely at ADT [Associate Degree for Transfer] awards in health fields and discusses practices and challenges relayed by administrators at campuses with high rates of ADT conferral and acceptance in…

When appraising the performance of others, assessors must acquire relevant information and process it in a meaningful way in order to translate it effectively into ratings, comments, or judgments about how well the performance meets appropriate standards. Rater-based assessment strategies in health professional education, including scale and…

Since its founding in 1950, the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) has evolved in response to the changing needs of both the public and the profession. This SOPHE Presidential Address provides a brief review of SOPHE's history and the legacy of its achievements over some 60 years. It also describes how new challenges being created by the…

In recent years, many health care organizations have begun to take advantage of computerized information systems to facilitate more effective and efficient management and processing of information. However, commensurate with the vastly innovative enhancements that computer technology has contributed to traditional paper-based health care…

Many work processes take place through routines, or recurrent patterns of action. These activities involve individuals from several occupations working across spatial, temporal, and organizational boundaries. Crossing these professional, temporal and spatial boundaries has unique challenges which can lead to coordination failures. In these…

This study aims to examine the academic motivation of students in two therapeutic health professions along with their individual attitudes toward professional training and continuing higher education in Germany. The self-determination theory was taken as a theoretical basis, and the intercultural validated German version of the original French…

The purpose of our article is to illustrate the use of mixed methods research as necessary to uncover maximum information and perspective, increase corroboration of the data, and render less biased and more accurate conclusions. This study used the case study method to closely examine the people, issues, programmes and topics related to the…

The Maryland Hospital Education and Research Foundation (MHERF) is a private, non-profit organization whose objectives are: (1) to coordinate, improve and standardize continuing education and training programs for health personnel in Maryland; (2) to coordinate, accelerate and extend existing health career information activities in the state and…

Argues that there is justification for retaining the traditional idea of a profession. Considers forces that have contributed to the erosion of the traditional notion, what a true profession is not, what distinguishes a profession philosophically from other activities, and where in this schema allied health and other new health professions fit.…

AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT, LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE OFFERED PROGRAMS LEADING TO EMPLOYMENT IN 13 HEALTH RELATED AND PARAMEDICAL OCCUPATIONS. REVIEW OF THESE PROGRAMS AND RELEVANT LITERATURE LED TO NINE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAMS--(1) CONSTRUCTION OF A SPECIAL FACILITY FOR ALLIED HEALTH SERVICES EDUCATION, (2)…

This document, which represents a survey of the entire health career film field, was designed to provide information for people interested in a health career. The guide indicates that a major criteria for film selection was recency; however, some older films that give a fairly accurate image of a profession were included, with some emphasis given…

Provisions being made or planned to assist both veterans with medical experience and civilian health personnel to obtain advanced standing in health education programs in Ohio were surveyed in 1970-71. Thirty-five career areas are summarized, telling if they have a plan to have equivalency and/or proficiency examinations, based on responses…

The principal address was by Ralph C. Kuhli, entitled "Education of Health Manpower for the 1970's." He called for recruitment of workers into general rather than specific health occupations, development of educational programs for allied medical occupations, organization of a national joint accreditation commission, encouragement of students and…