Federal financial aid is available for a wide range of dental activities, including the provision of services, construction of facilities, education and training of professional and auxiliary personnel, and the conduct of research and demonstration projects. This publication contains a brief description of the purpose of each federal aid program,…

The purpose of the project was to determine what goals, content, and learning experiences in psychiatric-mental health nursing should be included in diploma and associate degree education for nursing in the light of present-day trends in nursing and psychiatric care. The report follows the sequence of the project: (1) selection of associate degree…

Nurses today are faced with the problem of choosing from a proliferating array of alternatives, both when they decide what type of nursing education to pursue and when they must choose between the many occupational directions they face on graduation from nursing school. Recognizing these recent developments in both education and health, the…

This report was based on a survey to determine how students in the health professions of medicine osteopathy, dentistry, optometry, pharmacy, podiatry, and veterinary medicine financed their educations during the 1970-71 school year. The purpose of this nationwide survey was to provide information on patterns of student expenses and on the sources…

The purpose of the project analyzed in this document was to initiate, develop, implement, and evaluate a curriculum within its program of Association Degree (A.D.) nursing for veterans with past training. The analysis of this project is discussed in the following chapters: (1) general (stating rationale, purpose, etc.); (2) comparison of corpsman…

The purpose of the report is to give a state-of-the-art picture of clinical pharmacy education and training in the United States as represented by 4 prototype pharmacy school curricula chosen for documentation by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Criteria for selection relate to the environment in which the various curricula are…

The data presented in this publication update the information on current allied health manpower requirements, supply, and deficits that was published in the 1969 Report to the President and the Congress on the Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966, as amended. Section 21 also provides projections for 1975 and 1980. (Author)

The use of tests to equate knowledge, experience, and skill with prescribed levels of formal training, and to match people with jobs on the basis of measurable ability to perform them, has received increasing attention by those concerned with manpower shortages in health-related occupations. Basic to the concept of career mobility is the need to…

The Comprehensive Health Manpower Training Act of 1971 significantly amends the Health Professions Educational Assistance Programs contained in the Public Health Service Act. Originally authorized by the Health Professions Education Assistance Act of 1963, the programs provide Federal financial assistance to schools of medicine, osteopathy,…

Generally, today's curriculum trends in the health professions are to allow for increased enrollment of students, to permit greater curriculum flexibility, to arrange earlier introduction of students to patients, to shorten program time, to attract minority students, to encourage more community learning experiences, to permit more independent…

The initial phases of development, implementation, goals, and activities of the OSAAHE is described in this report. (DS)

Because persons over 45 are not adequately served by American educational institutions, a model program was designed to help older persons seeking second careers in the health care field to make realistic career decisions. This program combined classroom work and field experience with individual and group counseling. (Author/LPG)

Reports the 15-year experience of an undergraduate program in preparing allied health professionals for educational leadership positions. Of 73 professionals receiving degrees, 34 percent were department chairs or the equivalent. The diversified settings and job titles reported indicate that curriculum is valid for a variety of health care…

This study compared the rated level of work attitudes as measured by the Work Attitudes Inventory for 113 secondary, community college, and hospital teachers and nine practitioners of health occupations. The results reveal that practitioners rated affective work traits lower than teachers did. (JOW)

A national study was conducted to assess the level of allied health research productivity and to determine the relationship between the amount of research and faculty characteristics. Data from 2,187 respondents indicated that faculty who are employed by four-year research universities, possess earned doctorates, hold the rank of professor, and…