The programed instructional text is designed to offer health professionals basic information about hospital practice. It is divided into four major hospital areas: liability; the medical staff; using the hospital; and the physician and standards of quality care. The section related to using the hospital takes up half of the text and develops…

This document reproduces a filmstrip and accompanying narrative describing the Allied Health Learning Center at New York City Community College. Using a team of content faculty, specialists in learning methodology, and a media production staff, the Center serves 1,800 students and 180 faculty members in seven career departments. The primary goal…

The report describes revision of the Compliance Safety and Health Officers (CSHO) course for the Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The CSHO's job was analyzed in depth, in accord with OSHA standards, policies, and procedures. A listing of over 1,700 violations of OSHA standards was prepared, and specialists…

The unusually high rate of inflation has produced a clear demand for more vigorous government action to lower the rate of price increase, including increases for health professional schools. The concern coincides with Congressional debate surrounding the renewal of the entire structure of federal support for the education of physicians, dentists,…

The report covers a seventeen month demonstration project to design, develop and teach a health care career-oriented program for 60 enrollees of the Neighborhood Youth Corps in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The report concludes on whether the concept of a long-term career oriented program fits the experience or perceptions of enrollees and NYC staff,…

The manual contains listings of health and hospital occupations, state and national health organizations, Missouri colleges and universities, Missouri licensing boards of health professions, and training programs for health occupations in Missouri. This last section, comprising 288 pages, covers health administration, public health, anesthesia,…

Fourteen categories of manpower, comprising 75 percent of the total health work force requiring formal training of six months or more in Alabama, are studied in this preliminary report. They are physicians, dentists, optometrists, pharmacists, medical technologists, certified laboratory assistants, sanitarians, medical records clerks, radiologic…

A consequence of the knowledge explosion in the medical sciences is that health care professionals are pressed for time to keep up with developments in their fields. To deal with this problem, the Department of Postgraduate Education of the University of Wisconsin has experimented with three methods of making current pertinent and authoritative…

A total of 174 representatives of 14 health professions from 54 Regional Medical Programs attended a 4-day conference to discuss means by which allied health professions can make a maximum contribution to the health service system through Regional Medical Programs. Conference activities included two panel presentations, reports of 10 task forces…

The three major components of the HCSP, Academic Course Work, Academic Tutorial, and Clinical Tutorial, are discussed in detail, as well as budgeting considerations, program effectiveness, and recommendations for the future. See also TM 000 760 and TM 000 761. (AG)

This quarterly publication announces the availability of instructional materials acquired and processed by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education. It should be of particular interest to teachers, curriculum specialists, supervisors, and administrators involved in curriculum…

Developed through the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project, this report presents, in outline form, a core curriculum for the human services area. Specific objectives of the CORD project were the: (1) application of job analysis to positions in the social and human services, (2) organization of tasks and skills into career…

The project described in this document was designed as an experiment in career education in the health field. The 3-year program offered students in three Los Angeles high schools and one Long Beach high school an introduction to health careers in the first year, work experience in the second, and cooperative or work-study education in the third.…

This quarterly publication announces the availability of instructional materials acquired and processed by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education. It should be of particular interest to teachers, curriculum specialists, supervisors, and administrators involved in curriculum…

This quarterly publication announces the availaility of instructional materials acquired and processed by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghose on Vocational and Technical Education. It should be of particular interest to teachers,curriculum specialists, supervisors, and administrators involved in curriculum development…