IN "EDUCATION FOR LIBRARIANSHIP RE NEW MEDIA," CAROLYN I. WHITENACK GIVES A BRIEF OUTLINE OF LIBRARY EDUCATION AND STATES THE PHILOSOPHY, STANDARDS, AND PATTERNS OF CURRICULUM RELATING TO EDUCATIONAL MEDIA AT THE GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE LEVELS. JOHN M. MORIARTY DISCUSSES "EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE FILM PRODUCTION…

This regional conference assessed the status of guidance programs as they relate to area vocational-technical schools (AVTS), and formulated strategies for improvement in this area. The discussions of the following issues are summarized: (1) providing a balanced educational experience, (2) effective communications between sending schools and AVTS,…

The occupational transferability of skills learned in school and on the job has been studied very little. This paper reports some estimates of the monetary trade-off between specialization and occupational flexibility in the Ph.D's choice of major at undergraduate and graduate school. These estimates are based for the most part on multiple…

A RETESTING WAS MADE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MEASURED INTERESTS AND THE SELECTION OF A MEDICAL SPECIALTY. SPECIFICALLY, THE RESEARCH REPORTED HERE ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE WHY THE STRONG VOCATIONAL INTEREST BLANK (SVIB) AND THE MEDICAL SPECIALIST PREFERENCE BLANK (MSPB) SCALES FAIL TO PREDICT EVENTUAL MEDICAL SPECIALTY. ALL OF THE ANALYSES OF AN…

A study to identify factors affecting individuals' decisions to pursue small- or large-animal veterinary practice showed that area of childhood residence, perceived (but not actual) income differentials, job travel demands, and perceived professional image and prestige affect the increasing shift from large- to small- animal practice. (JT)

Topics included among the approximately 175 references are: continuing education, curriculum, educational measurement, faculty, foreign graduates, graduate education, history, foreign education, minority groups, philosophy, schools, specialties, students, teaching hospitals, teaching methods and materials, and undergraduate education. (LBH)

Approximately 300 references are cited in this bibliography dealing with: accreditation and licensure, continuing education, curriculum, educational measurement, faculty, foreign graduates, internship and residency, minority groups, specialties, medical students, foreign education, teaching hospitals, and teaching methods and materials. (LBH)

The author discusses the inaccuracy and handicap of the Bob Hartley image of the counseling psychologist. He discusses expanding this image along several dimensions: flexible use of time, use of different settings, greater use of groups, a wider variety of methods and helpers, counselor initiative, team cooperation, and specialization. (Author/JEL)

The psychiatry rotation at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal is given to groups of McGill University medical students in the third year. It exposes students to clinical psychiatry through outpatient and emergency experiences and also to psychosocial aspects of medicine through interviews with ordinary patients and their families. (LBH)

In a study of 1,195 medical students, those from medical families were insignificantly different from their classmates on premedical scholastic achievement and admission test scores, but were slightly younger and attended more prestigious undergraduate colleges. Academic and clinical performance was equivalent but specialty-choice differences were…

The 1976 Education Amendments contain what may be the most comprehensive prescriptions for planning, evaluation, and research on vocational education formulated to date by the United States Congress. Discusses possible outcomes of the legislation and their implications for overall educational thinking and policy. (Author/RK)

This study represents a preliminary effort toward the ultimate goal of identifying some of the major determinants of final career plans of residents in internal medicine. Initial career goal statements indicating future subspecialization are found to be important but the incidence of goal reversal is high. (LBH)

Presents historical review of issues and trends in training of professionals for subject-oriented libraries and argues that resistance by library education programs to practitioner demands for specialization has limited librarians to a narrow range of work in the "Information Society" and created unnecessary divisions within the…

A survey of several hundred internists, surgeons, and psychiatrists concerning their attitudes toward female and male alcoholics, alcoholism, the adequacy of their education about alcoholism, methods of handling alcoholics, and desire to learn about alcoholism is reported. Implications for continuing professional education are discussed. (MSE)

The question of ownership of courseware development decisions made by subject matter specialists working with skilled programmers, an issue arising from the team approach to developing high-quality courseware, is examined in the context of two universities' and one corporation's current use of the approach. (MSE)