Focuses on the interaction patterns of child life interns, nurses, parents, and other attending adults with hospitalized children. Hospital study uses quantitative/qualitative analyses. Suggests that more attention be given to sensitizing child life interns to the importance of involving parents in socially stimulating play with their children.…

Acting on recent evidence indicating the potential for success in business careers for humanities and social sciences graduates, this article describes how a sociology department modified its coursework to better accommodate the business career potential of its students. (JDH)

A graduate student who has participated in a student internship program in business presents seven rules to follow to make the experience most effective. (MBR)

An internship/residency model of teacher education was developed by the California Consortium on the Beginning Years of Teaching. A successful initiation of the model and problems that prevented implementation elsewhere are described. (DF)

Focuses on the primary interactions of the intern with the supervisor, colleagues, and co-workers within the structural framework of the organization, and examines the ways in which the expectations of the intern and other organization members affect these relations. (Author)

This paper describes a unique city government internship program that combines a full-time internship experience with seminar sessions to foster the connections between the theory and practice of municipal government administration. The paper notes that the program was developed as a way of providing a richly textured and rigorously conducted…

This report describes the "Year Up" program, an innovative technology training program, that prepares and places low-income, urban young adults in entry-level IT jobs while also preparing them for college. The program targets recent high school graduates and GED recipients between the ages of 18 and 24 who are either unemployed or…

This directory informs Latino youth about the various scholarship, internship, and fellowship programs available to them. While scholarship awards help students obtain a college education, fellowship and internship programs enable Latino students and young professionals to build and develop their leadership and analytical skills. Seventy-five…

This study examined the role of the administrator education internship in perpetuating the gap in relationships between teachers and administrators. It explored the moral socialization that teachers in pre-service administrative preparation programs experienced while engaged in administrative internships, examining the messages that administrative…

The era of economic dominance supported by the existence of a large and inexpensive labor pool, and expanding domestic market, and/or exploitation of natural resources is over in the United States. It's time to work smarter, not just work harder. Thus, the economic vitality of any region in a modern economy is dependent on the ability of its…

Discusses the objectives and methods under consideration in the development of a national internship program for sanitarians. Also reports a summary of the responses from 50 California sanitarians in reply to a questionnaire regarding the Sanitarian Internship Program. (JR)

Two of the major problems facing graduate medical education today are the changing status of the medical internship year and the financial constraints on hospitals developing new or expanding programs of graduate medical education. (Author)

The purposes of this project were to determine specific behavioral objectives for the internship program in a teaching hospital while ascertaining the usefulness and efficiency of a previously used technique for involving faculty in this process. The procedure involved rating the importance of specific objectives by means of a questionnaire.…

Article describes the learning experiences of federal interns who gain awareness of the Federal system by exposure to governmental operations. (RK)