Data were collected through instruments and personal interviews from coordinators and faculty of 45 practical nurse education programs (16 in Iowa and 29 in Illinois) to determine characteristics related to student selection criteria and procedures, organizational structure, curriculum, and opinions and perceptions of faculty members. Comparison…

This report is primarily concerned with the education of physicians and dentists and with the programs for training physician's and dentist's associates and assistants that are being developed in several university health science centers. The report opens with a summary of the major themes developed during the study. Chapter 2 discusses the…

To provide a profile of the health manpower being separated from the United States Army Medical Department, analyze the utilization of these personnel by the civilian health community, and evaluate the opinions of these servicemen regarding their entry into the civilian health field, a random stratified (on the basis of number of weeks of…

Developed for students receiving on-the-job training as nursing aides, this illustrated manual contains these chapters: (1) Orientation, (2) Introduction to the Patient, (3) Your Working Environment, (4) The Patient's Unit: Making the Unoccupied Bed, (5) Lifting, Moving, and Transporting Patients: Making the Occupied Bed, (6) Personal Care of the…

A computer-based education system, PLATO (Programed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations), has been used to teach nursing students at Mercy Hospital School of Nursing in Urbana, Illinois since 1963. PLATO III, the model now being used in a maternity nursing course, has 70 student terminals (20 of which can be used at any one time) connected to…

The standards are intended for the information of schools, optometrists, clinics, and prospective students. They concern organization and administration, faculty, student selection, curriculum, and accreditation policies. The general academic program should include English, social and behavioral science, mathematics, history, and office skills.…

This paper is intended to begin laying out the organizational specifications for analyzing clinical settings in education (settings in which the activities of teacher development and educational research are carried out in close conjunction with a public school system's instructional program). Seven organizational properties important to…

Sixteen home economics teachers participated in the workshop, which was designed to prepare teachers to begin an introductory health service program or to broaden the concepts of home economics occupational programs as related to the health occupations field. The workshop was planned by the Supervisor of Personal Services of Detroit Public Schools…

Curricula that are related to the specific task requirements of an occupation can be developed using task analysis. The development of task-related curricula should follow these steps: (1) complete a pretask analysis to develop a brief description of the job and to gather data related to the amount of supervision required, the number of coworkers…

The purpose of the report is to examine some aspects of the national and Army's need for and programs to develop a new type of health care delivery assistant-referred to generally as the physician's assistant. The army's program is tentatively scheduled to begin in early 1972 with a class of 60 students. The projected title for the graduate of the…

This proposed plan for postsecondary education in New Hampshire contains eight sections. After the introduction concerning the function of a state system, the economic impact of colleges, and some former studies of postsecondary education, New Hampshire postsecondary education is discussed in detail. Colleges, students, statements by college…

A model is presented for health manpower planning, designed as a handbook to facilitate the orderly development of health manpower training programs to fill identified needs and job opportunities within a defined geographical region. The handbook is based on the study of the health care system of the Coastal Bend Region of Texas. (NTIS)

The Dental Auxiliary Utilization Grant Program has the purpose of providing Federal grants to dental schools for training dental students in the effective use of auxiliary personnel. Recently, a new program, the Training in Expanded Auxiliary Management (TEAM) Grant Program, was established to train dental students in the "team" approach to dental…

Administrators and staff members of the College of Eastern Utah and the Carbon County School District along with specialists of the Utah State Department of Education developed specifications for a proposed career center, which were based on guidelines and decisions established by a vocational planning policy committee. The resulting…

This annotated bibliography documenting the range of recent studies of manpower utilization is intended to stimulate qualified investigators to begin a systematic, technologically sound ordering of human manpower and skills in the health field. To correct the existing inefficient distribution of manpower in the health industry, more appropriate…