This manual is intended to encourage policy makers, administrators, and personnel officers in hospitals and other health facilities to recruit and hire the thousands of well-trained, experienced men and women who leave the military medical services each year. The document lists the advantages to the medical institution when employing medically…

The extrication course is part of a planned program of courses designed to upgrade the training of ambulance attendants in life-saving and life-sustaining techniques. Contents include objectives and scope; a course outline; comments on instructors, students, class size, training facilities; and wrecked vehicle sources, safety precautions, and…

The report has described the results of a questionnaire survey covering task performance in the occupational area of hospital engineering and maintenance and the implications for curriculum development in personnel training. Survey respondents were selected from among personnel of 48 health care facilities in six cities, representing various sized…

Twenty-eight medical schools formed the Southern Medical School Consortium, later expanded to the Health Sciences Consortium. The sole purpose was to set in motion the Self-Instructional Materials Project to produce self-instructional materials which could be used in several institutions. The project developed self-paced, inexpensive instructional…

Papers presented at the 65th annual American Medical Association Congress on Medical Education are contained in this publication. "Core Curriculum in Allied Health Education" by Joseph Hamburg clusters general subjects into environmental, communicative, and interpretive categories and clusters allied health subjects into those three and an…

Prepared by practical nursing educators, this document is intended to serve as a tool for (1) self-evaluation by educational programs in practical nursing, (2) evaluation for accreditation by the National League for Nursing, and (3) appraisal of plans for the development of new practical nursing programs. The statements, whcih are organized into…

Education and training as related to geriatric services are discussed in terms of present and future needs. Types of educational programs that have been developed to meet specific needs by various institutions, agencies, and/or individuals are described. Recommendations made are: (1) Professional groups should view existing problems and should…

This pilot project, intended to introduce secondary students to health occupations, includes a curriculum that is being designed for replication in secondary schools throughout the nation. Evaluation of the project is intended to provide a valid means of curriculum adjustment. This document presents the proposed research design to be used for…

To assist community colleges in the South in developing curriculums, planning programs, and recruiting and evaluating students for mental health training, and to work with mental health agencies in job placement for graduates, a 5-year project was conducted under a grant from the Natonal Institute of Mental Health. Using a developmental approach…

Selected from the "Occupational Outlook Handbook," the listings included in this document represent a number of occupations for which junior college or other special training is useful. Each listing, grouped under a broader occupational area, provides a specific occupational title, number employed in the occupation in 1974, qualifications and…

Designed to meet the job-related metric measurement needs of students interested in becoming dietetic technicians, this instructional package is one of five for the health occupations cluster, part of a set of 55 packages for metric instruction in different occupations. The package is intended for students who already know the occupational…

Prepared to assist agency and university programs in the organization of a program to prepare trainees for employment as audiometric assistants, this guide is intended for use by professional individuals who are familiar with clinical speech and hearing problems. The manual contains five teaching modules, each including training time, objectives,…

In 1972, the development of a health sciences education program, oriented to health rather than medicine alone, was initiated at UCB. Summarized in this report are the major activities of the first three years in the areas of: an M.S. degree in health and medical sciences; a "medical option" program designed to prepare students for…

The work values patterns of female and male students at the two- and four-year levels of allied health professions are investigated. Results indicate that a student's educational level or sex has an impact on his/her work orientation. (Author/JKS)

At Queen's University an extramural interprofessional discussion group, involving students and faculty members from medicine, nursing, theology, education, and law, has been meeting since February 1977. The discussions center on actual persons and problems with implications for a number of professional groups. (Author/LBH)