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…

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…

Developed by a 25-member committee representing health service institutions, educational institutions, manpower organizations, and professional groups, this publication contains guidelines for use in developing programs for physician's assistants. Suggestions are made for: (1) determining the role of the physician's assistant in relation to other…

This paper reviews some of the things that can and need to be done in the area of allied health professions. The federal government must be willing to commit funds in the direction of the allied health fields. A start has been made, but more help is needed. Aid must also come from state governments and private sources. The colleges and…

The Area Health Education Centers Program (AHEC) Conference, sponsored by 11 universities holding federal contracts for the support of AHEC, considered issues relating to decentralized and regionalized health professional education. The participants discussed regionalization and educational program development; interdisciplinary program…

To determine if on the job training of allied health personnel could be improved by offering supervisors a short seminar in teaching techniques, a 12-hour program was developed, and 1,299 participants were trained over a 3-year period. The five training sessions utilized demonstration and "learning by doing" techniques to teach participants how to…

Through Medicaid, the Health Maintenance Organization Act (HMO), and Prepaid Health Programs (PHP) approaches were established whereby the government can help alleviate the medical problems of the needy. A program to educate and train students in California in the philosophy, administration, and development of PHP was developed in response to…

This report discusses a working group convened in Varna, Bulgaria, by the World Health Organization to examine trends, issues, and problems regarding assessment of health professional competence and to prepare guidance to improve existing arrangements. Following a summary of the proceedings, the main portion of the paper reports main findings and…

Written for State and local operators of Health Education and Welfare (HEW)-funded health service, health manpower, and health planning programs, this guide is intended to serve four major purposes: (1) Provide selected insights into the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) and how it works; (2) point out potential areas for…

By definition allied health education operates in a dynamic environment influenced by the diciplines it represents, the educational system in which it resides, and the complexities of the health care delivery system which it serves. Well-designed and implemented interdisciplinary programs would assist allied health administrators in answering the…

To determine the feasibility of establishing a program for training cardiac exercise technicians and leaders at William Rainey Harper College, a survey instrument was mailed to 901 organizations who were potential employers. No follow-up was used and 85 questionnaires were returned (9.4%). It was assumed that none of the non-respondents were…

The AHEC (Area Health Education Center) program is designed to demonstrate the ways in which a university health science center (often including a medical school) can improve the supply, distribution, quality, efficiency, and utilization of health care personnel in medically underserved areas through establishment of satellite educational…

Chaos theory, which attempts to understand underlying order where none is apparent, was applied to an interdisciplinary rural health training program for health professionals. Similar programs should anticipate systemic flux between order and chaos and pay attention to information flow, degree of diversity, richness of connectivity, contained…

DESPITE SHARP INCREASES, THE SUPPLY OF HEALTH MANPOWER CONTINUES TO BE OUTSTRIPPED BY THE DEMAND WHILE THE NEED FOR 3,700,000 TO 4,000,000 WORKERS BY 1975 IS COMPLICATED BY THE SERIOUS DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKERS AND FOR LEADERS AND TEACHERS. PREPARATION FOR THE HEALTH FIELD HAS INCREASINGLY BECOME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF…