The Medical-Counseling, Organizing, and Recruiting (Med-COR) program is a project sponsored jointly by the University of California School of Medicine and the Los Angeles Unified School District. The program, which was organized to serve 4 inner city schools, has expanded to serve 42 middle schools and 34 high schools. The Med-COR programs major…

The Medical-Counseling, Organizing, and Recruiting (Med-COR) program is a project sponsored by the University of California School of Medicine and the Los Angeles Unified School District to provide career information and experience in the health professions for middle school and high school students. This study evaluated the impact of the Med-COR…

The report describes the work of an American Association of Colleges of Nursing task force charged with defining the central elements of master's education for advanced practice nursing. The task force formed a consensus for two separate but related components: a statement of the essential core curriculum content for master's-educated nurses and a…

A faculty must think effectivelyto build a congruent meaningful equivalency testing effort as an intimate part of its curriculum. No faculty should feel embarrassed if its conclusion, after careful assessment, is that it cannot or should not offer equivalency testing. Each faculty should study equivalency testing and its feasibility. (Author/AJ)

Movement toward a more flexible health manpower regulation system encourages these educational improvements: imaginative implementation of multiple entry points; training programs which provide for upward and lateral mobility; more meaningful competency examinations (toward the development of national standards); and developing continuing…

Considers the need for developing medical technologists in a project offering instruction by local physicians and surgeons in methods for diagnosing and treating "trauma" victims. (Author/RK)

Since Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho (WAMI) have limited medical education facilities to fill the need in these states for physicians, the WAMI program was introduced. This program provides a year of clinical practice with a community physician to expose students to family practice. (PG)

Educational media--hardware and software--provide a way of learning facts, principle, and procedures. (Editor)

Nurses can learn new facts, master the principles underlying procedures, update information, or be oriented to the philosophy and operation of a new place of employment through computer assisted instructional programs developed by experts. (Editor)

Discusses changes made in a high school occupational home economics program so that student needs are met and also provides a brochure describing the supportive health and child care services program. (SB)

University medical centers must be prepared to produce additional qualified manpower and health care programs to be required by renewed health manpower legislation. (IR)

This paper describes a program designed to help paraprofessional workers become an integral part of a comprehensive health care team. (Author)

Work Study program designed to introduce high school and college students to career opportunities in the health professions. (Editor)