An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite more than a decade of concerted global action to address the health workforce crisis, collective efforts are falling short in scaling up the supply of health workers. The resulting health workforce…

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…

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)

A national center for health professions education research is proposed to facilitate well-funded, peer-reviewed, academically credible research. Its goals would allow for testing of models to provide health professionals with education grounded in sound methodology and content. (Author/MSE)

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…

INTEGRATION OF PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION THROUGH CONSOLIDATION OF RELATED TRAINING WAS STUDIED AS A FIRST STEP IN CURRICULUM DESIGN FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WHICH WILL MEET THE CHANGING REQUIREMENTS OF MEDICAL CARE OCCUPATIONS. THE OBJECTIVES WERE TO DETERMINE--(1) COURSES COMMON TO PRESENT PARAMEDICAL EDUCATION PROGRAMS, (2) THE…

Tables contain dollar amounts of fiscal 1990 actual spending and fiscal 1991 presidential request, House-approved, Senate-approved, and actual appropriations for scientific research, health research and training, student financial aid, graduate support, institutional assistance, bilingual education, library resources, aid to disadvantaged and…

Describes a course designed to teach nursing students and other health-care professionals enough Spanish to enable them to communicate with their Spanish-speaking patients. The textbooks and reading materials used to teach the language and Latin-American culture are described. (SED)

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…

Requests for federal aid from the Department of Education and other agencies are tabulated by category and are compared with actual fiscal 1988 budgets and estimated fiscal 1989 figures. (MSE)

The three types of physicians trained in the People's Republic of China (practitioners in Chinese medicine, traditional Mongolian medicine, and western-style medicine) and the design of the medical schools and programs are discussed. (MSE)