While University students increasingly participate in work-integrated learning (WIL), their dignity is often violated during WIL. The current literature is limited in so far as it typically focuses on student perspectives within healthcare contexts and does not use the concept of 'dignity'. Instead, this study explored student and supervisor…

A sample of predominantly African American psychology major baccalaureates from a historically Black university self-reported job types, salaries, and master's degree completion. For this pre-2009 recession sample, we found that (a) the rates of employment were quite high; (b) most jobs were related to health, mental health, social work, and…

This paper presents the degrees conferred by Connecticut institutions of higher education in 2007-08. Connecticut colleges and universities awarded 36,634 degrees in 2007-08 (up 1.6% over 2006-07), the state's seventh consecutive year of growth and a 28 percent increase since 1998. Once again, the top five degree-producing disciplines were…

This report analyzes how the Texas higher education system will meet the needs of future health care professionals. The report examines: (1) medical education needs (physician supply, physician distribution, medical schools' responses to physician distribution, and distribution of medical schools and regional academic health centers); (2) national…

Persons desiring to prepare themselves as nurses represent a highly varied group. This article discusses the educational routes and employment opportunities available to Hispanic students. The names and addresses of three organizations which are supportive at the national and local level to Hispanic students and short biographies of three notable…

The course, Pharmacy and the Skilled Nursing Facility, is the second clinical component for baccalaureate students at the University of the Pacific. On- and off-campus locations provide students with opportunities to simulate the consultant pharmacist and to master a systematic approach to monitoring long-term-care patient therapy. (Author/LBH)

The first of 3 volumes of position papers presented at the first Native American Teacher Corps Conference (Denver, Colorado; April 26-29, 1973) presents 8 position papers and 3 addresses. The content is: (1) addresses; (2) on Indian's education; (3) culture and education; (4) theoretical construct of the ideal school system for American…

Prepared by the Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP), this handbook provides information relative to American Indian health careers in terms of need, opportunity, preparation, and information sources. Designed to encourage American Indian youth to seek careers in the health professions, this handbook describes the enormous need for…

DESPITE SHARP INCREASES, THE SUPPLY OF HEALTH MANPOWER CONTINUES TO BE OUTSTRIPPED BY THE DEMAND WHILE THE NEED FOR 3,700,000 TO 4,000,000 WORKERS BY 1975 IS COMPLICATED BY THE SERIOUS DEMAND FOR PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL WORKERS AND FOR LEADERS AND TEACHERS. PREPARATION FOR THE HEALTH FIELD HAS INCREASINGLY BECOME THE RESPONSIBILITY OF…

Traditional predictor variables of SAT scores and high school grades seldom account for more than 16 percent of the variance in student performance in college and graduate school, and they account for even less in decisions of students to leave school. Three studies are presented that added nonintellective variables to the traditional combination…

In order to ascertain whether distinctive patterns of selectivity exist among young aspirants to professional careers in education and health situses, data from a survey of high school seniors (N=1,500) in four northeast and two southeast Alabama counties and from three selected urban high schools adjacent to the northeast counties were examined.…

This how-to kit for conducting a survey on the positions women hold in local occupational and decision-making structures is divided into six sections. Section I provides an explanation of the survey and its goals. Section II includes several survey questions and practical tips for finding the answers for each of eleven categories: Law, education,…