The United States is experiencing a physician shortage and rural areas are especially impacted. Programs exist to recruit college and medical students to work in rural areas, but few programs are focused on the high school "pipeline." Medical students, residents and physicians who have lived in rural areas are more likely to practice in…

This capstone provides readers with an analysis of the role student engagement has in higher education. Student engagement has been studied extensively by many authors, and each has provided a framework for understanding the various approaches to increasing engagement of students. This paper approaches the topic of student engagement by examining…

A logic model is a communications tool that graphically represents a program's resources, activities, priority target audiences for change, and the anticipated outcomes. This article describes the logic model development process undertaken by the California Geriatric Education Center in spring 2008. The CGEC is one of 48 Geriatric Education…

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)…

More than 100 individuals attended a 2-day conference on developing dental auxiliary utilization (DAU) programs. Presentations included in this report are: (1) "How the Dean Implements the DAU Program," by James English, (2) "Some Objectives of a DAU Program" by Charles Barr, (3) "Role of the Supervisor in a Dental…

This document offers guidelines for providers of continuing education that are the result of a British project at Sandown College, Liverpool, England, designed to develop, pilot, and evaluate a program that would enable a greater percentage of unemployed blacks to gain entry to specific vocational programs. (Those programs were electronics and…

TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF A STUDY, MEETINGS WERE HELD WITH GROUPS INCLUDING PATHOLOGISTS, RADIOLOGISTS, AND COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERS, 30 ADDITIONAL PERSONS CONCERNED WITH HEALTH SERVICES AND EDUCATION WERE INTERVIEWED, DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD WITH OTHER GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN HEALTH MANPOWER RESEARCH AND PLANNING,…

Materials contained in this guide are designed to be used in planning a comprehensive career education program and for developing individual career education units for grades 6-9. Section 1 is the planning guide and contains strategies for organizing, planning, and implementing a program, developing staff inservice, conducting a needs assessment,…

The author suggests a framework for planning and evaluating continuing education, giving attention to the learner, his objectives, and the learning process; these components are discussed in determining the special characteristics of the continuing education of professional health workers, and a model program is presented. The article is in…

Presented are an overview of Physicians' Assistant programs in the United States and a study of their applicability to the Washington metropolitan area. The national overview includes information gathered from fourteen respondents to questionnaires sent to 30 physician assistant programs currently in operational or planning stages. Aspects…

THREE HUNDRED REPRESENTATIVES OF LABOR, MANAGEMENT, EDUCATION, HEALTH ORGANIZATIONS, GOVERNMENT, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, AND OTHER INTERESTED GROUPS ATTENDED A CONFERENCE PLANNED AS A MEDIUM TO DISCUSS ISSUES, EXCHANGE VIEWS, AND SHARE EXPERIENCES IN MATCHING PEOPLE AND JOBS. SPEECHES INCLUDE--(1) "GREETINGS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF…

This foundation-supported publication will be of special interest to those planning associate degree programs in health education. The articles represent published and unpublished papers and are divided according to general orientation to allied medical and health technologies, and information on specific careers open to students. Topics covered…

This collection of articles is a foundation-supported publication and will be of special interest to those planning health education curriculums and programs. They fall into three sections: a background article, a set of articles about actual programs, and a comprehensive collection of articles about planning the associate degree program in the…

This publication is one of four parts of the Project Continuing Education for Health Manpower performed by Syracuse University for the Regional Medical Programs Service. Continuing education is defined as systematic efforts to acquire, maintain, and develop the abilities, skills, knowledge, and attitudes of persons already engaged in providing…

The document is a continuation of CE000452. Five monographic chapters are presented there. The concluding five monographic chapters of this publication concern the health care practitioner as instructor by Hilliard Jason; an approach to a rational scheme for financing continuing education for health manpower by Leon M. Lessinger; the use of…