Examined the superiority of humor as it applied to the formal and informal status structures of six small, task-oriented groups in business and health care. In the more professional and highly trained groups in health care, high-status individuals were integral parts of the humor network and enjoyed no particular "joking monopoly."…

This article provides a conceptual framework to review and discuss studies of explaining in various professional contexts including teaching, medicine and health professions, and law. (Author/MT)

The origin of licensure in the medical professions is outlined beginning in Europe around the first century with the examination of potential physicians by the most respected physician in the land. The origins, advantages, and disadvantages of licensure in several occupations are reviewed. (Author/CT)

The duties of dental assistants are being expanded to include intraoral procedures performed under a dentist's supervision, to provide more dental care to more people at less cost. The SUN (Snyder, Union, and Northumberland counties, Pennsylvania) Area Vocational-Technical School provides training and clinical experience as a model program. (AG)

The athletic trainer is, in effect, a paramedic who gives first aid and rehabilitation treatments to injured athletes. Opportunities, income, education, and a list of undergraduate and graduate programs approved by the National Athletic Training Association are presented. (Author/SC)

Existing procedures for selecting students into allied health care educator programs (Graduate Record Exam scores, undergraduate grade point average, etc.) are inadequate. Procedures based upon examination of three groups of health manpower personnel to determine what characteristics distinguish them and upon better measures of job satisfaction…

A career education program developed at U C L A unites classroom and hospital work in training students to enter the burgeoning health field. (Editor)

Briefly describes several instructional techniques including computer aid simulation of the medical encounter, media-biased approaches for teaching doctor-patient relationships, and programed media for teaching decision-making to nursing students." (Author/AA)

Reviews seven promising new fields for subprofessionals in health occupations. (JS)

Describes the design and implementation of a simulation exercise to reinforce lecture guidelines specifying disclosure of medical information without risk to patient or student. (JOW)

The narrow perspective on illness that specialization can produce can be forestalled through efforts to broaden understanding of illness by delineating ethical dimensions of relationships to patients, creating a view of the place of the professional in the historical evolution of medicine, and examining how technology influences medicine and…

Implications of controlled studies for health professions education are explored. An alternative research strategy is proposed, in which descriptive account of a situation allowing the important factors to become apparent throughout the observation is emphasized. This facilitates an hypothesis-generation strategy. (GK)

The purpose of this study was to analyze the costs and benefits to health care facilities participating in the clinical education of allied health students. In all six allied health programs, the debit sum was greater than the credit sum. (Editor)