Discusses the human and material resources that are necessary to provide maximum benefits for student nurses in a cooperative clinical experience program. Presents guidelines for starting a student clinical experience program or enhancing an existent one. Explores the advantages of such a program for the cooperating hospital. (JOW)

Discusses the design, implementation, and evaluation of a work-study clinical nursing course designed to allow student nurses to experience the realities of professional nursing. The authors report the reactions of faculty, nursing staff, and students to the experience. (Author/CT)

An approach to creating a practice climate to prepare occupational therapy students for clinical placements included nine strategies: select random respondees, demand full sentences, press for clarity, expect active listening, time assignments, spring surprises, impose ambiguity, invite disagreement, and give feedback openly. (Contains 26…

The authors synthesize preliminary findings from an interdisciplinary study of the practicum/clinical phase of undergraduate pre-service education in the professions. Early data analysis identified similarities and differences across disciplines in terms of: (a) the terminology describing each practicum program, (b) the programs' key…

Methods used in evaluating the clinical learning experiences of medical students in rural and university settings are investigated. A three-dimensional scheme for categorizing these different methods is described. (JKS)

The Roy Adaptation Model, which incorporates use of the modes of physiological needs, role function, self-concept, and interdependence, helps to organize the content of a geriatric nurse practitioner program, and also helps students to develop a nursing identity. (TA)

There is a sharp discrepancy between the number of nurses getting master's degrees focusing on advanced clinical practice and the availability of jobs in that area. If master's-prepared clinicians are not needed, graduate curricula must be evaluated in terms of the types of roles for which they are preparing students. (JOW)

The University of Montana School of Pharmacy has included a miniexternship experience in a required introductory course. Goals of a survey of 67 first year students and 17 preceptors included students' demographic profile and prior exposure to pharmacy practice, assessment of the influence of the externship on career goals, etc. (MLW)

All present and past participants in a post-PharmD pharmacy residency program were surveyed in a program evaluation. The residency was comprised of rotations in the emergency room and each resident was required to meet for one hour each day with assigned clinical pharmacy faculty for the morning report. (Author/MLW)

Since 2005, seven graduating nursing students from the University of Worcester have visited Whyalla, a regional city in South Australia, to undertake a two-week rural clinical placement. Following the placements, surveys were conducted to determine the impact of the experience. Findings suggested that the majority thought that international rural…

The Vanderbilt Summer Research Program in diabetes, which was designed to interest medical students in research careers and diabetes care, was evaluated. The program provides stipends to 20 sophomore and junior medical students for 12 weeks of preceptor-supervised laboratory research work, clinical experience, and classroom instruction. The…

Background information is provided to clarify some of the issues surrounding teacher and student evaluation in pharmacy education. Major questions explored dealt with what should be evaluated, how the data should be collected and used, and the adaptability of the experiential domain for students. (Author/LBH)