Context: Student interest in and national recognition for the value of global education is expanding. Opportunities for interprofessional education (IPE) are a required component of athletic training education and education of other health care professions. Objective: To describe the development of a short-term study abroad IPE course in the…

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…

The present trend is for more instruction of health professionals to be given in college classrooms and less in the clinical facility. To facilitate this transition a core curriculum is proposed which can be challenged by examination, independent study modules, and competency based design. (Author)

The Peer Review Workgroup of the Community-Engaged Scholarship for Health Collaborative developed a novel set of quality community-engaged scholarship characteristics and a resource package aimed at two primary audiences: faculty seeking promotion or tenure based on community-engaged scholarship; and review, promotion, and tenure committee members…

The paper reviews the training need by professionals in the allied health services for work with handicapped children and youth. The American Society of Allied Health Professionals (ASAHP) has conducted workshops in which roles and responsibilities for allied health personnel were identified, such as helping to coordinate health, education, and…

Two aspects of optometric preceptorships (off-campus field experience supervision programs) are discussed: the process of defining goals (long-term, specific learning, and general attitudinal and value); and the process of developing the program (initiation, site selection, preceptor selection and recruitment, participant selection, program…

The document contains 22 appendixes which were cross-referenced in the final report of a study on the University of the Pacific's interdisciplinary program called School of Health Professions (SHP). Items include the following: (1-A) obesity study guide; (1-B) diabetes mellitus study guide; (1-C) hypertension study guide; (2) identification and…

Inherent in the meaning of baccalaureate dental hygiene education is the offering of upper-division courses in the theory and practice of dental hygiene itself. Restructuring the associate programs as strictly two-year, lower-division programs would require standardization of baccalaureate programs as strictly upper-division curricula. (MLW)

THE ASSOCIATION'S FIRST POSITION PAPER ON NURSING EDUCATION WAS PREPARED BY ITS COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AFTER 2 YEARS OF STUDYING THE MAJOR CHANGES AND TRENDS IN AND AROUND NURSING, ESPECIALLY AS THEY AFFECT PATIENT CARE. THE ASSOCIATION BELIEVES THAT--(1) EDUCATION FOR ALL WHO ARE LICENSED TO PRACTICE NURSING SHOULD TAKE PLACE IN INSTITUTIONS OF…

Designed with the objective that the nursing needs of the people of the state be met by qualified practitioners of nursing prepared in institutions of higher education, the blueprint includes among its proposals the following: (1) that plans be completed for the transfer of all nursing programs to institutions of higher learning by 1972, (2) that…

In 1972, the development of a health sciences education program, oriented to health rather than medicine alone, was initiated at UCB. Summarized in this report are the major activities of the first three years in the areas of: an M.S. degree in health and medical sciences; a "medical option" program designed to prepare students for…

Dartmouth Medical School (New Hampshire) was one of 16 institutions receiving Generalist Physician Initiative grants, enabling it to accelerate institutional changes. Principles successful in achieving change included capitalizing on a sense of urgency for change, creating and empowering a guiding coalition, developing and communicating the…

The project was designed to investigate and demonstrate the ways by which students of nursing and personnel in hospital nursing services can be prepared to cope with disaster problems as well as additional activities that impinge on medical practice. The demonstration projects were made possible through subcontracts with four institutions which…

The background, origins, functions, and recommendations of the American Association of Dental Schools' task force investigating improvement of access to dental hygiene training programs and of curriculum and program design are presented. (MSE)

Efforts of the Health Resources and Services Administration to combat and ultimately prevent domestic violence are discussed. In collaboration with states and communities, the agency has programs to strengthen the health care infrastructure, support direct community-based service delivery, and educate health care providers. A comprehensive…