This volume consists of the first four units of a basic core curriculum that is intended for all health workers. The units deal with the following topics: (1) the health care facility, the long-term care facility, the health team, and the nursing team; (2) verbal and nonverbal communication, written communication, human behavior, ethical behavior,…

This document reports the research efforts in Louisiana to develop a model teacher preparation program in health occupations education (HOE). Chapter I describes the procedures used to develop a current profile of HOE teachers in Louisiana and to determine the educational needs of HOE teachers. Chapter II is a report on the research that…

The role of higher education in promoting health and consumer awareness of health needs is addressed in this SREB bulletin. The jobs of health educators and primary health providers are reviewed with focus on areas of needed improvement and community service. Initiatives taken by individual institutions are cited along with examples of health…

Developed to aid students enrolled in an emergency medical technician (EMT) training course, this document accompanies a course guide and a set of instructor lesson plans which update a basic training program for EMTs. The course consists of twenty-five lessons involving a minimum of seventy-one hours of classroom and field training plus ten hours…

Factors contributing to the shortage of minority health care professionals can be alleviated through the development of a sound allied health careers counseling program. This manual is designed for use by the director and his staff for establishing and conducting a short term allied health counselor training workshop to enhance the skills and…

Inequities of access to health care and service provisions are considered to be major problems by health policy-makers today. These inequities result from disparities in physician distribution by specialty and geography that are concealed by aggregate analyses of physician supply. This paper describes what is presently known about physician supply…

This module on communication in health occupations--general--is one of 17 modules designed for individualized instruction in health occupations education programs at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. This module consists of an introduction to the module topic, a list of resources needed, and two learning experiences. Each learning…

Identifying personality types and learning style preferences of students and professionals in the allied health professions can aid college students in academic achievement and in career decision making. A literature review regarding personality types and learning style preferences of students enrolled in various allied health fields is presented.…

Designed for trainers of community health workers, these guidelines are intended to help them instruct, in a practical way, those workers in how to improve nutrition in their areas. The book is divided into nine modules, each concerned with a different aspect of the community health worker's training. Each module first sets forth the learning…

This manual is intended to assist teachers and supervisors by providing a set of guidelines on the design and use of methods for assessment of students' and health workers' performance. It is divided into two parts. Part 1 outlines a general approach to performance assessment, establishes a set of principles essential to the effective assessment…

Under the auspices of the Kentucky Council on Higher Education and with the aim of delineating issues in allied health education and making recommendations for alleviating the issues, an in-depth, two-year study was completed in 1975. The primary recommendations pertained to the development of a statewide plan for allied health education that…

These workshop materials are designed to provide basic information and develop competencies necessary for the health occupations teacher to use and integrate metrics into the curriculum. Objectives and activities of the three-hour workshop are outlined. Informational materials cover historical development of the metric system, metric units, metric…

This guide, which derives from planning work at Southeast Community College (Nebraska), is designed to improve the practice of vocational program planning at the postsecondary level. After an overview is provided in the first section, a compilation of seven separate categories is presented which deals with gathering needed information for…

Recognizing the legislative and institutional difficulties involved in complying with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, this paper describes the efforts of St. Mary's Junior College (SMJC) to develop technical (i.e., non-academic) standards for college admission. The paper first points to particular legislative variables which must be…

A study examined the issue of which components should be present in a secondary health occupations program to receive approval and funding. A task force including secondary health occupations teachers, health occupations program graduates, school administrators, health care facility inservice coordinators, health occupations student association…