An oncology curriculum is described in which the responsibility for the education of the student in this discipline is placed on the instructor. (Editor)

A pre-vocational unit for orthopedically and neurologically handicapped children exposes the children to careers, as well as provides direction for their futures by allowing for understanding of their limitations and abilities in partaking in normal everyday life processes. (Author)

Excerpts from speeches of two health educators to the general session of the Health Occupations Division at the 1971 annual meeting of the American Vocational Association. (MU)

Discusses briefly a practical interdisciplinary educational program which would offer the patient early and continued treatment. The program involves improved and uniform treatment requiring the training and coordination of all deliverers of health care in the community, with the major responsibility resting with professional personnel.…

Upgrading aides and orderlies can help relieve the health manpower shortage. Though the problems of professionalism, licensure, and training make new career development difficult, change in this direction is possible. (DM)

Education for health careers can prepare school health personnel to make the school health program what it needs to be: a major factor in improving the health care system in this country. Presented at American School Health Association, Houston, Texas 1970. (Author)

There is an urgent need for more research in predictive measures to test the ability of applicants for training in occupational therapy. (CK)

Because of economic constraints, both continuing education (CE) providers and participants are seeking ways to avoid and/or reduce costs related to CE. This paper consists of a case study description of what one regional continuing education center has done to reduce costs without reducing services. (SSH)

The prevailing case study approach to teaching biomedical ethics and a new methodology using exercises designed to develop decision-making skills are compared. Advantages of the new course and suggested course content are outlined. (Author)

Reasons behind the trend by health professional schools to use computers for storing, sorting, and retrieving student data are discussed. Methods are suggested to ensure that the data system will meet administrative and evaluative needs and be financially viable. (Author/GK)

Aside from essential managerial information realized from faculty load studies, there exist two underlying fundamental principles: that equity is important (among individual faculty members, departments, and institutions); and there is a relationship between workload and the quality of education. (MLW)