This report presents the overview and study of educational programs and employment opportunities in health in Connecticut and in the Northeast. The overview emphasizes recommendations; Connecticut health-related educational programs; Connecticut employment of selected health occupations; projections; state agencies as employer/educator; profiles…

The Philadelphia Student Health Organization Summer Health Project had as a purpose to collect information relevant to the following categories: (1) descriptions of new kinds of cooperative arrangements; (2) descriptions of features of community organizations; (3) description of the health status of poor populations; (4) evaluation of the present…

The objective of this inventory was to provide basic data concerning the effectiveness of new health manpower training programs for comparison with future studies and documented information, for planning purposes. It was necessary to define the components of the health manpower training network and to identify individuals responsible for its…

The main objective was to develop and pilot test a basic course for ambulance personnel with emphasis on the medical aspect of training. This included the identification of a medically acceptable text or manual, and determining the prerequisites for selecting students and instructors. Secondary objectives were to outline the requirements for…

To evaluate the use of radio as a means of recruiting minority students into the health fields, 11 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area were selected to participate in a program of weekly radio broadcasts studying 11 health professions with manpower shortages. A combination panel and question and answer format was used for the broadcasts.…

The material presented here is the result of a review of the Technical Development Plan of the National Library of Medicine, made with the object of describing the role of audiovisual materials in medical education, research and service, and particularly in the continuing education of physicians and allied health personnel. A historical background…

The data in this report are the result of the first in a series of five proposed inventories of licensed practical nurses. The study revealed a total of 343,635 practical nurses holding licenses to practice at the time of the study. About 74 percent reported they were employed in nursing, 20 percent indicated they were not employed in nursing, and…

This study compared the relative effectiveness of an automated teaching machine with instructor presented instruction in graduate dental teaching. The objectives were to: (1) determine the effects of 3 laboratory instructional procedures used in combination with 2 lectures on the acquisition of manual operative skills, the learning of information…

This bibliography lists nearly 300 programs under the name of their publishers and subjects. Entries include the author's name, publisher and date of publication, type of students for whom the material is intended, the program's length, price, and comments concerning its use. Unpublished programs are generally not listed, and tape/slide, etc.…

To assess the effectiveness of videotapes depicting clinical situations in the teaching of nursing, videotapes were made of the everyday, real-life situations that persons and their families experience throughout their illness in various parts of Canada's health delivery system. Three validation sessions, attended by representatives of nursing…

A rationale is presented with examples of an approach for professionals in the health sciences to becoming more self-directed in the ways in which they continue their education throughout their career. The five objectives of the discussion are: (1) to understand the functioning of the mentor role as it is used to guide self-directed education of…

This is a booklet in the Project IDEALS series which deals with personal development. The first section, entitled "Health," deals with general aspects of school health services and school personnel. Section two describes the characteristics of physical fitness and discusses innovations in physical education. A third section deals with health…

This report describes the overall work of the project and the first 10 months of its current demonstration phase, Phase IV. It presents an overview of the project's history and objectives, a description of the methodologies involved, the steps taken in applying the methodologies in task analysis and curriculum design, the approach to…

This document summarizes the proceedings of the National Student Conference on Health Manpower, Chicago, March 1972. Following a staff report on the conference proceedings, student research papers on workshop topics are presented. These papers concern health profession recruitment and retention with consideration of general minority and sex-biased…

In fall 1969, the University of Minnesota Medical School implemented a new curriculum and the option for students of graduation in either 3 or 4 years as an experiment designed to decrease the shortage of practicing physicians. The purpose of this paper is to describe similarities and differences between 3 and 4 year graduates. The results of the…