The document's research concerns are directed to the study of various dimensions of health care delivery systems and the dynamics of health manpower supply and requirements. It attempts to explore and determine the effectiveness of the economic system as a surrogate in health planning for the health care delivery system, and to estimate the…

Designed to serve as a guide to medical laboratory personnel seeking to improve their skills in teaching and instruction in the absence of a suitable course, the manual presents an extensive discussion on instructional techniques. Chapters include: Theory and Practice of Instruction, examining general considerations, individual and group…

The New Haven Institute of Allied Health Careers has been involved in a project to (1) assist educationally disadvantaged students in preparing themselves for health careers opportunities through guidance services and (2) address the lack of access to and mobility within the health professions systems through educational change. Made up of a…

The study identified the barriers which prevent application, matriculation, and/or completion of allied health postsecondary education programs by blacks, Spanish-surnamed Americans, and Native Americans and recommended means of reducing or eliminating the barriers. Only those barriers which could be resolved or reduced through programs of public…

The liberal arts have always been considered the purest form of education and its proponents have vigorously defended it against the encroachments of "practicalism." But if we can legitimately claim that liberal arts are truly an education for life, we must remind ourselves that work is the most significant ingredient of our post-educational…

The two-part set consists of a student handbook and a related teachers' handbook in allied health education for use at the seventh grade level. The student handbook contains four units: (1) investigating health care needs, (2) mental health--study of different types of job roles and their related activities and skills, (3) treatment--diagnosis of…

The two-part set consists of a student handbook and a related teachers' handbook in allied health education for use at the eighth grade level. The student handbook contains four units: (1) investigating health care needs, (2) mental health--study of different types of job roles and their related activities and skills, (3) treatment--diagnosis of…

Operation TACT (Toward an Allied Health Career Today), conducted in Hartford, Connecticut, was a cooperatively planned program integrating allied health education into the secondary level curriculum and offering educational opportunities to minority and disadvantaged students. The evaluation report opens with a historical summary of the project, a…

Dental schools across the country have begun to devote special attention to educating minority students in order to alleviate the acute shortage of minority dental manpower. The Workshop on Minority Education in Dentistry presented issues and approaches to answering a basic set of questions: How can qualified minority students be identified and…

The book discusses the current problems of arranging clinical experiences for allied health personnels which will meet student needs as well as the interdependent objectives of educational and clinical institutions. Chapter 1 reviews general trends in the education of health practitioners with particular consideration of the status of physical…

The Public Health Service's problem in personnel recruitment led to the inception of the Career Development in Global Community Health (GCH). The first group of fellows was enrolled in 1968. Component One traces the history and development of the program. It represents a comprehensive program history between 1966-1972, examines the adherence of…

The booklet provides a listing of both long-term and short-term educational programs and is aimed at providing students, counselors and health planners with much needed information on training programs in relatively new fields of nursing. It provides information on location, entrance requirements, length of program, when classes begin, and sources…

This study examined characteristic adult educational problems and needs concerning employee employer, employee patient, and employee public relationships as perceived by key personnel in seven state hospitals for adult psychiatric patients. A special three part rating schedule was administered to 11 key personnel in each hospital. Data from Parts…

Documents announced with VT numbers only in the Summer 1970 issue (VT 011 834) of "Abstracts of Instructional Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (AIM) are included in this microfiche set. The microfiche set is arranged in the following sequence: (1) a Vocational Technical (VT) number index to documents in the microfiche collection,…

Citations of final reports of projects funded by the Division of Comprehensive and Vocational Education Research (DCVER) of the U.S. Office of Education are included in this bibliographic listing. Projects completed between July 1, 1964 and June 30, 1968 are grouped in a section titled, "Four Years of Research, Development and Training." Special…