Papers from an Arizona State University conference on "Professional Continuing Education"--including the fields of business and industry, labor, education, allied health, and government--are presented. A variety of perspectives on the needs of professionals and opportunities for continuing education are provided by such contributors as a dean of…

OFFICIALS OF A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLE OF HOSPITALS, BIOMEDICAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURERS, AND MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES IN NEW ENGLAND AND THREE MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES WERE INTERVIEWED TO DETERMINE THE NEED FOR TECHNICIANS TO SERVICE AND MAINTAIN EQUIPMENT FOUND IN HOSPITALS AND BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS. RESPONSES INDICATED A NEED FOR…

Critical decisions that need to be made by faculties of health administration education programs when developing and assessing the health services management portion of the curriculum are identified. Decisions should draw from the information available concerning professional target roles of graduates, graduate behavior expected, resources for…

One area of communication education that is ripe for growth is that of health communication, where human communication knowledge is adapted to the demands of health care practice. The development of interdisciplinary communication programs such as curricula in health communication can begin to bridge the gap in knowledge between different…

The health problems of today are different from those of the past and therefore demand new health care approaches and policies. The goals of the conference on disease prevention and health promotion were: to increase knowledge and understanding of the range of approaches to health promotion; to exchange information about the cost and effectiveness…

This publication contains more than 50 papers on the latest developments and applications of interactive media to link distant locations. The contributors, who represent business, government, education, medical, and telecommunications organizations in the United States, Canada, England, and Australia, have had direct experience with the full range…

Exercises are provided in this set of four workbooks designed to aid students in health occupations programs in building vocabulary and reading skills. Each workbook borrows from the vocabulary of the health sciences to provide explanations and exercises for a sequential series of instructional objectives. One workbook concentrates on developing…

This booklet contains a summary of the instructor's indices for the South Carolina prevocational curriculum program. It includes ninety-two activities which are arranged around a cluster of vocational offerings: home economics, agriculture, distributive education, world of work, trade and industry, office occupations, and health occupations. (The…

Proceedings are presented from the American Nursing Association (ANA) conference for members and professional employees of state boards of nursing and the ANA advisory council. In addition to opening remarks and discussion comments, the following papers are presented: "The DHEW Secretary's Report on Licensure: A Summary," by Ronald J.…

A report on the Puerto Rico Dental and Other Health Professions Student Orientation and Recruitment program is presented. Project objectives were to: (1) plan, develop, implement, and assess a formal recruitment program designed to enroll and train a higher proportion of highly qualified Puerto Rican high school and baccalaureate students for the…

Two methods for evaluating continuing education of the Western Missouri Area Health Education Center (WMAHEC) are examined. The evaluation questions concern whether WMAHEC provided regionally accessible continuing education and whether WMAHEC catalyzed the development of administrative mechanisms to support continuing education program…

Because there is a growing interest in improving the efficiency, effectiveness, and relevance of health personnel education, the World Health Organization formed a Study Group to discuss the uses of learner-oriented objectives, to examine the bases for identifying and selecting educational objectives, and to devise guidelines for evaluating such…

This publication is a compilation of abstracts of nursing manpower studies currently under way or recently completed by health manpower and analysis study groups throughout the country. It was prepared under the sponsorship of the Interagency Conference on Nursing Statistics, an informal association of statisticians from a variety of organizations…

Papers include "The New Concept of Technology" by Edwin Miner and reaction papers by Ruth Matheney and Hazle Blakeney; "Problems and Issues in Accreditation by Specialized Agencies of Vocational-Technical Curricula in Post Secondary Institutes" by Lloyd Messersmith; "State Board Examination Equals Licensure Plus…

Recognizing the shortage of prepared nursing personnel in both service and educational institutions, the Advisory Committee on Nursing Education made a questionnaire survey of all state approved schools of nursing in Massachusetts to aid in planning for nursing education within the state's public educational institutions. Returns from all six…