TO DETERMINE THE FEASIBILITY OF A STUDY, MEETINGS WERE HELD WITH GROUPS INCLUDING PATHOLOGISTS, RADIOLOGISTS, AND COMMUNITY HEALTH AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERS, 30 ADDITIONAL PERSONS CONCERNED WITH HEALTH SERVICES AND EDUCATION WERE INTERVIEWED, DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD WITH OTHER GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN HEALTH MANPOWER RESEARCH AND PLANNING,…

The directory is provided by the Council on Medical Education of the American Medical Association (AMA) in collaboration with 29 other medical organizations, which are listed in Section 1 with names of officers and addresses. A brief history of the council follows, along with a statement of its basic principles for the accreditation of allied…

Questionnaires concerning the nature of work performed and the work setting, plans for continuing formal education, and opinions regarding the relevancy of training received were sent to all individuals (3,282) certified by the Board of Certified Laboratory Assistants (CLA's) since certification began in 1965. Some findings from the 970 returned…

The stated objective of this guide is to provide a quantitative description of the current supply of health manpower in the State of Washington. To do so, two methods of data collecting are used, with explanations for each. Precautions for interpreting their data are noted. The major portion (152 of 180 pages) of the guide lists information on…

This reference handbook is designed to provide vocational counselors with background information on a wide range of occupations related to medicine. Nearly 60 careers are described with educational requirements, salaries, schools where training may be obtained, and sources of additional information. An address list of associations and a health…

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)