Recommendations for meeting health manpower and training facility needs in Maryland are made, based on the included Coggeshall report. Demand for health personnel is contrasted with estimated future supplies. A third medical school should be planned and dependence on foreign physicians reduced. Rural areas should improve their own health services.…

This two-day conference heard from leaders on national trends in health manpower, with particular emphasis on the granting of equivalency credit for relevant experience. Presentations were made under these areas: opening doors to health careers, national trends in allied health testing, innovative approaches to allied health equivalency testing in…

Concern about the adequacy of existing optometry schools to meet the needs and demands for optometric education in the South prompted a study, to result in a proposal for expansion of education in the field. The results showed that there is a shortage of optometrists in each of the 14 states of the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) region,…