This study examined the relationship between results of the ACT Assessment and the Health Occupations Basic Entrance Test (HOBET) entrance examinations. The purpose of the study was to estimate the validity of the HOBET as a predictor of student success and to compare the two examinations as predictors of grade point average (GPA) for students in…

The speaker explained the UCLA Allied Health Professions Project to develop occupational analyses, curricula, and instructional materials for the health occupations. to be used in on-the-job training. At UCLA the concensus is that articulation and career mobility can best be achieved through a particular type of task oriented curriculum. (AG)

A description of freezeframe, a technique by which film, interspersed with still visuals and audio instructions, is used by the federal government in the training of health professional personnel. (Author)

Discusses engineering as a career, emphasizing the need for large numbers of minority students--especially at the junior high and high school levels--to take advantage of the opportunity provided them by the need for engineers. (JM)

An oncology curriculum is described in which the responsibility for the education of the student in this discipline is placed on the instructor. (Editor)

A pre-vocational unit for orthopedically and neurologically handicapped children exposes the children to careers, as well as provides direction for their futures by allowing for understanding of their limitations and abilities in partaking in normal everyday life processes. (Author)

Excerpts from speeches of two health educators to the general session of the Health Occupations Division at the 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (MU)

Discusses briefly a practical interdisciplinary educational program which would offer the patient early and continued treatment. The program involves improved and uniform treatment requiring the training and coordination of all deliverers of health care in the community, with the major responsibility resting with professional personnel.…

Upgrading aides and orderlies can help relieve the health manpower shortage. Though the problems of professionalism, licensure, and training make new career development difficult, change in this direction is possible. (DM)

Education for health careers can prepare school health personnel to make the school health program what it needs to be: a major factor in improving the health care system in this country. Presented at American School Health Association, Houston, Texas 1970. (Author)

There is an urgent need for more research in predictive measures to test the ability of applicants for training in occupational therapy. (CK)