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Edinberg, Mark A.; And Others – Educational Gerontology, 1978
This is a reprot of the genesis and evolution of an interdisciplinary health care experience for student teams in a gerontological setting. The student teams faced many of the same problems encountered by other interdisciplinary health care teams, including role definition, role negotiation, decision making, and conflict resolution. (Author)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, College Students, Educational Gerontology, Field Experience Programs
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Higgins, P. M.; Jacques, D. – Higher Education Review, 1986
An interdisciplinary British program bringing together trainees in three health care fields during their field experience to encourage interprofessional cooperation is described, and some of the problems of collaboration are examined. (MSE)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Cooperation, Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries
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Freed, Benjamin; Kirstein, Mark – Optometric Education, 1995
A mobile eye care service is offered to homebound elderly residents of New York City (New York) by the State University of New York's College of Optometry. Fourth-year students are required to participate, learning techniques with hand-held equipment to examine a population with a high rate of ocular disease who might otherwise not receive…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Glazek, Marianne S.; And Others – 1983
Following a brief overview on the program and grant proposal process, this paper describes the design and implementation of the Aging and Mental Health Certification Program at Madonna College in Livonia, Michigan. The project goals (to design a program, to prepare 120 trainees, to meet community and trainee needs) and accomplishment of the goals…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Allied Health Occupations Education, Certification, Course Descriptions
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Sparks, Bernard I. – Optometric Education, 1992
Guidelines of the Southern College of Optometry (Tennessee) for development and administration of student externships are outlined and discussed, including principles addressing the setting of aims, goals, and objectives; preceptor (supervisor) and site selection; preceptor training; assignment of externships; and evaluation of students,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Allied Health Occupations Education, Educational Objectives, Field Experience Programs
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Magarian, Edward O.; Peterson, Charles D. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1995
An IBM-compatible information storage and retrieval software program was developed to support an eight-week community pharmacy ambulatory care clerkship for entry-level Doctor of Pharmacy students. The program helps evaluate and identify patients for health and medication problems, perform patient risk-factor assessment, monitor drug therapy,…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Compliance (Legal), Computer Software
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Selander, Linda Krypel; Bjornson, Darrel C. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1995
The Drake University (Iowa) pharmacy school has developed an elective teaching clerkship to help prepare pharmacy students as university teachers. Course goals were to familiarize students with issues in university-level teaching, promote understanding of theories underlying specific teaching methods, and apply general teaching technique and…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Clinical Experience, Doctoral Programs, Elective Courses
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Bumgarner, Susan D.; Means, Bill H.; Ford, Marian J. – Journal for Nurses in Staff Development, 2003
A summer health careers program in rural North Carolina educates and recruits high school students into health professions. Collaboration between an Area Health Education Center, a local hospital, and schools makes the program successful. A week of classroom presentations is followed by up to 6 weeks of job shadowing. Seventy percent of the 160…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Exploration, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs
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Chan, Joan M. – Journal of Experiential Education, 1983
Explains that internships in the Child Life Program at State University Hospital (NY) are designed to help college students understand the implications of hospitalization for seriously ill children from infancy to age 18. Describes the program's environment, seven objectives in educating interns, and the selection process, role, supervision, and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Adolescents, Allied Health Occupations, Career Exploration
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Carlton, Bill; Weston, W. Donald – Academic Medicine, 1997
Medical, nursing, pharmacy, and dental education in West Virginia's state universities has undergone substantial changes since 1991, becoming more responsive to community needs. A primary-care, community-based academic system now involves students, faculty, health professionals, and lay community members in identifying and serving needs in…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Change Strategies, Dental Schools, Educational Change