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Social Constructivism and Case-Writing for an Integrated Curriculum
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Doubleday, Alison F.; Brown, Blase; Patston, Philip A.; Jurgens-Toepke, Pamela; Strotman, Meaghan Driscoll; Koerber, Anne; Haley, Colin; Briggs, Charlotte; Knight, G. William – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2015
Case-writing within an integrated, systems-based health professions education curriculum presents many unique challenges. Specifically, case-writing in this context must consider integration of multidisciplinary learning objectives and synthesis of biomedical and clinical sciences. Establishing an effective process for content integration and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Case Method (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Problem Based Learning
Guidelines for Physician's Assistant Programs in Illinois.
Illinois State Inter-Agency Task Force on Health Manpower, Chicago. – 1971
Developed by a 25-member committee representing health service institutions, educational institutions, manpower organizations, and professional groups, this publication contains guidelines for use in developing programs for physician's assistants. Suggestions are made for: (1) determining the role of the physician's assistant in relation to other…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Allied Health Occupations Education, Career Ladders, Certification
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Scott, Michael – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2006
Efforts to expand diversity in the health professions has received a boost from a prominent member of Congress. U.S. Senator Bill Frist, R-Tennessee, recently introduced a bill to amend the Public Health Service Act as part of a comprehensive initiative to improve the health of minority and other underserved populations. This bill, which is being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Employment Opportunities, Public Health
The Comprehensive Health Assessment.
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Eastern Iowa Community Coll. District, Davenport. – 1992
This report contains information from a fall 1991 health occupations assessment of 1,021 health-related employers in Eastern Iowa and the Illinois Quad Cities area. Twelve chapters present comprehensive results of all surveys; results of 10 labor market survey instruments developed for chiropractic offices, dentists' offices, emergency medical…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Demand Occupations, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygienists
Development of a Health Occupations Continuing Education Center. Final Report.
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Stevens, Joyce; Freeman, Patricia – 1976
Implementation and expansion of class offerings was the primary focus of the second year of a project (in Evansville, Indiana) to determine the feasibility of establishing a center for continuing education for vocational level health occupations workers within the department of vocational education of a metropolitan school corporation. (The first…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Allied Health Occupations Education, Continuing Education Centers, Course Descriptions
The Health Care Workforce in Ten States: Education, Practice and Policy. Interstate Comparisons, Spring 2001.
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Health Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Bureau of Health Professions. – 2001
A pilot project profiled and compared the influence of the major environments of supply and demand, education, practice location and incentives, licensure and regulation, and planning and analysis on the health workforce in and among 10 states (California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Texas, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demand Occupations, Employment Opportunities, Graduate Medical Students