The purpose of this report is to serve as a guide for dental hygiene education program development, and to serve as a stimulus for improving established programs. The first section of the report discusses the function of the Council on Dental Education and the trends in hygiene program development. In section II the requirements for an accredited…

This self-instructional, job-oriented booklet on descriptive statistics for the health professions deals specifically with measures of central tendency (mean, median and mode). It is limited to those concepts and techniques most needed by health professionals working routinely with basic statistical data. (CK)

The primary objectives of this study were to determine to what extent the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (DHEW) health manpower training programs were acting as mechanisms to aid American Indians in reaching the highest levels of health training for which their individual ambitions and capabilities qualified them and to determine the…

This document presents the proceedings of a conference whose objectives were: (1) to identify the interrelationship of certification, licensure and accreditation in the allied health professions; (2) to describe current practices and consider their advantages and disadvantages in light of public and professional needs; (3) to consider the purposes…

The Health Training Improvement Act of 1970 (P.L. 91-519) is an extension and expansion of the Allied Health Professions Personnel Training Act of 1966 and the Health Manpower Act of 1968. The purpose of this report is to provide some background on the Health Training Improvement Act of 1970 and to summarize its major provisions. Section 1 briefly…

Current economic conditions have produced a resurgence of concern among health professions educational institutions about the costs of accreditation. Appropriate methods of cost determination must be established and widely applied. This report describes a methodology that was successfully applied in one school and may serve as a model for other…

Health occupations education has been recognized as a unique career field in vocational education. Distinctive and definitive youth leadership programs in terms of Health Career Clubs are needed to support this occupational area. (Author)

The author addresses trends of importance in planning future allied health education programs and discusses issues that must be faced in order to strengthen allied health education and service. Also highlights several recommendations of the National Commission on Allied Health Education. (CT)

Discusses the role of management in achieving environmental health and the need for a core of general environmental education courses in college programs aimed at producing urban managers and environmental health officers. Identifies three subgoals of environmental health: social order, visual order, and psychological order. (DC)

Replaces item 3, Treatment of Content, in "Attributes of Quality in Audiovisual Materials for Health Professionals" by Emanuel Suter and Wendy H. Waddell ("The Journal of Biocommunication," v8 n2, July 1981). (FM)

The author summarizes the findings and recommendations of the National Commission on Allied Health Education. He stresses that the new emphasis in allied health education is on widening the range of services, including preventive services, and on appropriate use of services. (CT)

Broadly defined, evidence-based practice (EBP) is fundamentally about professional practice being informed and guided by best available evidence of what works. The EBP movement had its origins in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom in medicine and health care services. Sackett et al. defined evidence-based medicine as the "conscientious,…

Professionally oriented tertiary-level courses such as allied health courses in Australia are under pressure from both their professions and the federal government to provide educational outcomes that prepare graduates for the workplace. This has resulted in a number of allied courses adopting problem-based learning (PBL), a teaching approach in…

In response to requests for up-to-date and authentic resources covering the increasing and changing occupational opportunities within the health manpower area, the New Jersey Health Careers Service has revised, expanded and updated its 1964 Health Careers Bibliography. This second edition lists only those materials published since 1964. Over 3500…

With the goal of more efficient utilization of existing health manpowers in New Hampshire, data were gathered on inactive medical personnel, and the feasibility of various methods of refresher training was explored. Because of New Hampshire's intrinsic characteristics of climate and scattered population and the scarcity of qualified instructors,…