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Varjavand, Nielufar; Novack, Dennis H.; Schindler, Barbara A. – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2012
There is growing recognition of the need to reeducate clinically inactive physicians seeking to return to practice and in the facilitation of this return. Physicians seeking to return to practice face many challenges: maneuvering the various requirements of licensing, medical, and credentialing boards; finding an appropriate educational program to…
Descriptors: Physicians, Certification, Career Guidance, Educational Resources
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Priscoli, Jerome Delli – Environmentalist, 1983
Discusses why modern engineering requires social science and the nature of planning. After these conceptional discussions, 12 practical tools which social science brings to engineering are reviewed. A tested approach to training engineers in these tools is then described. Tools include institutional analysis, policy profiling, and other impact…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Environmental Education, Futures (of Society)
Missouri State Dept. of Elementary and Secondary Education, Jefferson City. Div. of Vocational and Adult Education. – 1993
Missouri's vocational education delivery system provided a full range of programs, services, and activities for students in secondary, postsecondary, and adult institutions during fiscal year 1993. Some highlights of these activities are the following: (1) the system was composed of 418 local education agencies (LEAs), including 397 comprehensive…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disabilities, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Wonacott, Michael E.; Hamilton, James B. – 1983
This document reports the results of work in identifying promising approaches to the provision of technological update to vocational/technical teachers and barriers as well as facilitators to the use of those approaches. (Technological update refers to the technical, as opposed to pedagogical, knowledge and skills needed by vocational teachers to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education, Program Descriptions, Program Implementation
University Continuing Education Association, Washington, DC. – 1997
This publication profiles four award-winning programs honored in 1997 by the University Continuing Education Association. The four programs have instituted imaginative continuing higher education responses to important community needs. In all four cases, the focus is on developing human resources to support local employment and enhance the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, American Indians, College Programs, Continuing Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1991
This report is an introduction to the concept of lifelong learning as a key to unlocking resources for an aging society. It describes a myriad of learning programs for older adults, from those provided by giant companies, to those conducted by small community centers, to those developed and run by elderly persons themselves. Programs are described…
Descriptors: Adult Programs, Adult Students, Aging (Individuals), Educational Innovation
Ashley, William L.; Zahniser, Gale L. – 1984
This report, one in a series of three publications for vocational program developers and others to use in planning and developing a community-based response to worker dislocation, deals with programs for dislocated workers that have been developed and supported by private sector and local community efforts and resources. Reviewed in the first…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Case Studies, Community Education, Community Programs