THIRTY-FIVE FACULTY MEMBERS REPRESENTING TWO-THIRDS OF THE VOCATIONAL NURSING PROGRAMS IN CALIFORNIA ATTENDED TWO SERIES OF WORKSHOPS, EACH LIMITED TO EIGHT PARTICIPANTS, TO INVESTIGATE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS OF IMPROVING NURSING INSTRUCTION. GENERALLY, THE WORKSHOP DAY WAS DIVIDED INTO THREE PERIODS--CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, A WARD CONFERENCE, AND…

This paper provides a progress report on a study of a new dental school that departs from the traditional approach to professional socialization by channeling its students into clinic experience early in the first year of training. Based upon data from the first 2 years of a 6-year longitudinal investigation, the study focuses on the first class…

The developmental process and model described included three phases: formation of the conceptual base, curriculum development by a Task Force, and organization of courses. The effectiveness of the model and its applicability in the development of other curricula in a Health Science Center setting are considered. (Author)

The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Clinic was a pilot project to assess the feasibility and efficacy of providing university-based clinical practicum experiences for students. This program was based on an interdisciplinary model of education. Program evaluation data from patients, faculty, and students supported the success of interdisciplinary…

Medical faculty tend to influence their students to a great degree in choice of medical specialization. (HS)

An optometric residency program at The Eye Institute of the Pennsylvania College of Optometry that focuses on clinical training in the areas of low vision rehabilitation, pediatric optometry, visual training, behavioral vision, primary care optometry and hospital based optometry is discussed. (MSW)

Prepared by the Council on Education of the American Medical Association in cooperation with the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, the "essentials" are organized within the areas of administration, faculty and personnel, organization, prerequisites for admission, curriculum, ethics, student health, and procedure for admission to…

The survey investigated allied health faculty members' and students' ratings of 22 clinical education feedback characteristics. Results indicate that both faculty and students perceive eight characteristics as equally important, but they differ in their ratings of actual feedback provided in the characteristics of specific, timely, encouraging,…

On the basis of the parameters measured in this study, students completing a curriculum in medical technology with a shortened clinical laboratory phase plus structured courses in basic clinical science performed as well in an employment situation as students completing a curriculum with a full year of clinical laboratory experience. (Author)

Kentucky's AHES offers health care students part of their clinical instruction in practice situations and in regions of the state removed from the major academic health science centers. Pharmacy students may choose an off-campus semester in either the fall, spring or summer since the fall of 1973. (LBH)

Multivariate analysis of data from measures of self-efficacy, values, outcomes expectation, health care experience, and grade point average for 300 physician assistant students revealed that self-efficacy is a significant predictor of clinical performance. The importance of considering noncognitive variables in addition to academic ones was…