The school health services field experience program provides senior student nurses with the opportunity to acquire an accurate, comprehensive working knowledge of the functions and responsibilities of the school nurse-teacher. (RC)

The purpose of the course described here was to provide an opportunity for health education students to examine the role of patient education in the health care delivery system. (DS)

The paper reports results of a survey of 732 recent allied health graduates at Ohio State University to determine how they really felt about their jobs. Scores on the Job Descriptive Index revealed low levels of job satisfaction, with implications for allied health education. (MF)

Issues of changing positions and roles for paraprofessionals are considered in the context of the hierarchical structure and process of mental health organizations. Discussion focuses on problems arising when paraprofessionals are promoted in the functional hierarchy while continuing to occupy the lowest level in the professional caste system.…

Problems and solutions related to a determination of faculty resources for a health professions education college consisting of two allopathic medical schools, an osteopathic medical school, a dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, and a school of allied health professions are discussed. Curriculum descriptions and construction…

Approximately 170 references on cost analysis and construction are cited, divided into four topic areas: costs analysis in health professions education; planning in health professions education; cost analysis in higher education; and planning in higher education. (LBH)

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)

Self-reported learning in a 12-week interdisciplinary health team training experience at the University of Nevada, Reno, was measured. Analysis of 14 students from seven disciplines in three settings shows there was significant learning in the areas of team skills and processes and in knowledge of and abilities in client communication but not in…

Arizona Community Nutrition Workers gain college credit and job competence through Personalized Systems of Instruction. (Author/BB)

To meet the needs of dental patients for pharmaceutical services, dental schools have upgraded their emphasis in teaching pharmacology and the professional associations have developed liaison between each other. This survey examines the nature and extent of pharmacy colleges' involvement with dentistry. (LBH)

Five sets of computer-assisted instruction programs support undergraduate curricula at St. John's. They give the individual student an opportunity to test his familiarity with fundamental drug nomenclature in an engaging, self-directed manner. (LBH)

Allied health occupations have so expanded in number and in scope of services in one decade that they are now essential to modern medical care. The growth and optimal use of all health care personnel is related to the way in which allied health personnel will be used in the future. This paper focuses on some of the issues confronting the allied…

This paper reports the methods and philosophy used in developing a mastery learning model at the University of Missouri-Columbia to insure that allied health students in the physical therapy and occupational therapy programs learn the concepts of anatomy essential to the rest of the curriculum. (MF)

The emerging need for trained professionals in multicultural community health education means providing specific curriculum options in the traditional undergraduate community health education program. (JD)

Analysis of data indicates that student-centered, as opposed to institution-centered or program-centered, attributes have a greater impact on the student's decision-making process when selecting a pharmacy school. Significant differences in attribute influence based on demographic variables are presented. (Author/MLW)