This instructor's manual presents lesson plans for a unit of science within the Biomedical Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project (BICP), a two-year interdisciplinary precollege curriculum aimed at preparing high school students for entry into college and vocational programs leading to a career in the health field. Lessons concentrate on the…

This laboratory manual presents activities for a unit of science within the Biomedical Interdisciplinary Curriculum Project (BICP), a two-year interdisciplinary precollege curriculum aimed at preparing high school students for entry into college and vocational programs leading to a career in the health field. These twenty-five laboratory…

Dental hygiene students' perceptions of themselves and the "typical dental hygienist" were assessed in relation to feminist attitudes at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Dempewolff's (1972) 56-item Feminism II Scale was administered to all first-year, second-year, and…

The South Dakota Core Curriculum Project involving the career ladder approach to health manpower training, which began in 1970, had seven objectives including the following: (1) To organize a Health Manpower Council for the entire State; (2) to define the areas of basic commonality among the various training programs; and (3) to develop a core…

An instructor's manual and student activity guide on practical nursing are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of health occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home…

An instructor's manual and student activity guide on a dental assistant are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of health occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home…

An instructor's manual and student activity guide on the operating room technician are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of health occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture,…

An instructor's manual and student activity guide on respiration therapy technician are provided in this set of prevocational education materials which focuses on the vocational area of health occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture,…

This module on an integrative seminar in human service is one of a set of six developed to prepare human services workers for the changing mental health service delivery system. A total of eight objectives are included to help students integrate previously learned knowledge and skills into a process of assessing service need, developing treatment…

For purposes of allied health education applicability, the perceptual domain was examined in terms of (1) its own taxonomy and (2) its relationship to taxonomies in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. All these taxonomies are hierarchical in style; perception involves extraction of information from presenting stimuli and there is…

In an effort to reduce duplication of educational services and improve career opportunities, the East Central Illinois Community College Consortium (ECICCC) was created to provide cooperative allied health education programs. Four institutions, Danville Junior College, Lake Land College, Parkland College, and Richland Community College,…

This module on communication in health careers--the teletrainer is one of eight modules designed for individualized instruction in health occupations education programs at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. This module contains an introduction to the module topic, a list of resources needed, and two learning experiences. Each learning…

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…

Reviews of 17 studies relating to female vocational education are organized by topics: (1) "New Directions in Business Education" reports a program for scientific secretaries, the effects of interval pacing on typing skills, a task analysis of an office occupation cluster, and a 4-week preservice institute for office education teachers, (2) "Home…