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Arthur B. Chikware; Nicolette V. Roman; Eugene Lee Davids – SAGE Open, 2024
Various terms describe Information and Communications Technology (ICT) use in healthcare, including Health Informatics (HI). HI use in healthcare is expected to positively impact healthcare through healthcare cost reduction and improve healthcare accessibility and decision-making. However, the effective application and use of technology in…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Health, Health Services, Information Science
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Mpho Mashigo; Ida Risenga; Shalini Dukhan – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2024
South Africa boasts a variety of herbal medicines based on the availability of medicinal plants utilised by diverse communities for healing. This study aimed to evaluate the knowledge and attitude of Health Sciences students at a South African university, including cohorts of future doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, pharmacists and occupational…
Descriptors: Health Sciences, Majors (Students), College Freshmen, Student Attitudes
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Rich, Jessica V. – International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Professional accrediting and regulating bodies are increasingly trying to delineate the knowledge and skills needed for entry-to-practice for quality assurance and international labor mobility. The purpose of this study was to compare how professions describe and represent competence. Current, publicly accessible Canadian entry-to-practice…
Descriptors: Quality Assurance, Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Comparative Analysis
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Lum, Lillie; Alqazli, Mahmoud; Englander, Karen – TESL Canada Journal, 2018
To succeed in Canadian health professions, university education programs students must initially meet a variety of program-specific and English-language admission requirements. For non-native English-speaking (NNES) students, a major challenge can be the demonstration of profession-specific academic literacy and, in particular, adequate language…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Foreign Students, English Language Learners
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Consedine, Nathan S.; Yu, Tzu-Chieh; Windsor, John A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2013
Given global demand on health workforces, understanding student enrollment motivations are critical. Prior studies have concentrated on variation in career and lifestyle values; the current work evaluated the importance of disgust sensitivity in the prediction of health career interests. We argue that emotional proclivities may be important and…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Nursing, Nursing Education, Pharmacy
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Wilson, Keithia L.; Murphy, Karen A.; Pearson, Andrew G.; Wallace, Barbara M.; Reher, Vanessa G. S.; Buys, Nicholas – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The engagement and retention of commencing students is a longstanding issue in higher education, particularly with the implementation of the widening student participation agenda. The early weeks of the first semester are especially critical to student engagement and early attrition. This study investigated the perceived early transition needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Holding Power, Learner Engagement, College Students
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Hager, Paul; Gonczi, Andrew – Studies in Continuing Education, 1991
Professions take different approaches to competency-based continuing education: (1) pharmacy and nursing analyze competence in terms of roles and tasks (performance); (2) law analyzes professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes (attributes); and (3) medicine analyzes attributes in the context of performance of professional tasks, an integrated…
Descriptors: Competence, Competency Based Education, Job Performance, Lawyers
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Fitzgerald, James T.; Williams, Brent C.; Halter, Jeffrey B.; Remington, Tami L.; Foulk, Mariko A.; Persky, Neal W.; Shay, Barbara R. – Gerontology & Geriatrics Education, 2006
This study examines the impact of an interdisciplinary training program on knowledge and attitudes of learners from four health care programs: medicine, pharmacy, social work, and nursing. Sixty-two learners participated in a 4-day educational program (one day each week for 4 weeks) focusing on interdisciplinary geriatric care. After completing…
Descriptors: Geriatrics, Intervention, English (Second Language), Social Work
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Morris, Alvin L. – Journal of Dental Education, 1981
Within academic health centers there exists a well-established "pecking order" influencing daily life and reflecting fundamental relationships between medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and allied health. Relationships between individual professionals and between schools within a center are examined for clues to possible change. (MSE)
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations, Dentistry, Higher Education, Interprofessional Relationship
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He, Shaoyi – Electronic Library, 2003
Provides a brief survey of informatics, defined as the application of information technology to various fields, with respect to its historical background, disciplinary identity, fundamental aspects, applications, and challenges. Highlights include biological, clinical, dental, environmental, geomatics, health, legal, management, medical, museum,…
Descriptors: Administration, Biology, Clinical Experience, Dentistry
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Leeds, Andrew L. – American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, 1993
At the University of California-San Francisco, a multidisciplinary teaching group from dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social/behavioral sciences leads a multidisciplinary student team in a clinical experience in a nursing home. The program provides specialized experience in geriatric care and encourages teamwork. (MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Dentistry, Field Experience Programs, Geriatrics
Texas Coll. and Univ. System, Austin. Coordinating Board. – 1979
A determination was made of how graduates of Texas professional education programs perform on licensure examinations in comparison with their counterparts in other states. Test scores of Texas graduates were compared with national norms and averages in other states, when available, as well as with scores of graduates of out-of-state programs who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Architecture, Certification
New York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1988
The basic requirements for credentialing in 31 professions supervised by the Board of Regents and administered by the New York State Department of Education are listed. Not every requirement is cited, and a more detailed statement of the credentialing requirements for these professions may be found in Title VIII of the Education Law and in the…
Descriptors: Architecture, Audiology, Certification, Certified Public Accountants