This report examines the quality of physician education in health care for women and efforts to promote equity in the status of women physicians. Part 1 identifies five general findings concerning health needs of women (e.g., women receive fragmented, uncoordinated care and there have been gender inequalities and biases in research), suggests…

This brief paper suggests that Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) may result from a specific "novelty seeking" gene which has been associated over the history of man's evolution with a biological advantage in situations where energy, risk taking, and creativity are essentials. It reviews research on the genetics of ADD which suggest that novelty…

The chapters in this monograph are the written results of presentations made at a 1991 one-day workshop on services to traditionally underserved persons who are deaf. This workshop brought together approximately 40 service providers, consumers, federal officials, researchers, and program administrators to discuss the characteristics of this…

From its inception, Head Start's legislative mandate called for "maximum feasible participation" of parents in all programmatic efforts and policy decisions. Nevertheless, there has been little research done on the benefits of Head Start to parents and on the role of parents as mediators of child and family outcomes. The Head Start…

This graphic overview uses ten bar graphs to illustrate demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of Canada's visible minorities. Visible minorities are persons, other than aboriginal peoples, who are, because of their race or color, members of minority groups within the Canadian population. The following highlights are included: (1) the…

There is much more to a learning disabled (LD) child's successful learning than part-to-whole or whole-to-part instruction. Among the many factors to be considered are his/her learning style, interests, abilities, aptitudes, health, and parental support. Instructional programs for learning disabled children should be based on the students'…

Collected in this textbook are approximately 30 brief articles and related materials concerning the traits, development, nurturing, and education of children from infancy through early childhood. While varied, material in each of the six sections generally centers on (1) characteristics, traits, and developmental issues in infancy, preschool and…

Male and female adults revise their perceptions of control three times in their lives, between the ages of 20 and 65. To investigate the relationship between experienced control in terms of loci of control (internal, external), situations (opposite sex, same sex), and direction (from or over the environment), and the developmental stages of men…

This report provides data describing the nursing population as determined by the second national sample survey of registered nurses. A brief introduction is followed by a chapter that presents an overview of the survey methodology, including details on the sampling design, the response rate, and the statistical reliability. Chapter 3 provides a…

The advantages and disadvantages of being the spouse of a male college president are considered, along with the roles of the president and his spouse. Attention is directed to the ceremonial role of the president and his wife, on-campus entertaining, travel to speak to groups, the wife's problem of securing adequate help for her social role, the…

A profile of U.S. citizen foreign medical graduates (USFMGs) was developed from the point of entry to foreign medical school, through selection of a specialty, to establishment of a medical practice. Variables that determine USFMGs' choice of specialty and practice location were determined, using decision models and multinomial logit techniques.…

The correlations of scores of the Campbell-Holland Interest Scale for American and New Zealand psychology students were compared, and the factor structure was shown to be similar in the two samples. (Author)

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This paper envisions programs of teacher education as a tri-spoked wheel which places "competency-based teacher education" in formation with two other spokes representing important aspects of any teacher's profile, i.e., "teacher personality" and "teacher behaviors." (Author)

To enhance mutual understanding between the social work and nursing professions and to improve the care of the aged an interdisciplinary approach to teaching was instituted. Students exposed to the interdisciplinary approach not only learned to work well with each other but exhibited improved perceptions of the aged. (Author)