A survey of young physicians in rural areas was conducted and information was gathered from other data sources and analyzed for three main purposes: (1) to evaluate the retention of National Health Service Corps (NHSC) alumni in Health Manpower Shortage Areas (HMSAs); (2) to document the distribution of NHSC alumni, Private Practice Option (PPO)…

An instructional program in patient education skills for primary care medical residencies is described, with six instructional modules included. The federally-funded program, developed by the University of Wisconsin, was designed to enable physicians to better communicate with their patients about health, disease, and treatment. The six modular…

Compiled from the resource collection of Michigan State University's Non-Formal Education (NFE) Information Center, this bibliography contains over 100 references to international publications related to children's education, environment, development, labor, and health, and the training of persons involved in child education, development, and…

The different practice styles of young internists and the relationship between training and practice were studied as part of the National Study of Internal Medicine Manpower, Phase III. The practices of four groups of physicians were compared: general internists with traditional residencies, general internists who received their residency training…

This paper explores the results of an experimental program at Tufts University designed to affect medical students' career choices. Students were located in a rural hospital for the entire third year of their medical training. It was hypothesized that the program would result in more positive orientations toward practice in rural settings and…

There is little argument that the physician is the most expensive form of health manpower or that the physician is a critical decision-maker in allocating resources for the production of health-care services. Thus, their education and orientation have been singled out as intervention points when public concerns have emerged on cost containment and…

This book tells the story of how one school system in a medically underserved community near Chicago conceived and implemented primary care health facilities in two of its schools to serve all the children of the school district. The key to the preventive health care plan is the use of specially trained school nurse practitioners and health aides…

"Eskimo Medicine Man" is a record of primitive Alaskan life in the 1930's. It records the experiences in Alaska's remote areas of Dr. Otto George, the last "traveling physician" for the Department of Interior's Indian Service, when in all the territory (an area one-fifth that of the contiguous United States) there were fewer…

Results are summarized of a study conducted to determine whether certain characteristics of medical school students can be used as predictors in determining: the career choice between academic medicine and clinical practice, primary versus non-primary care, the geographic distribution of physicians, the distribution of manpower into the various…

The great disparity in the geographic and specialty distribution of health manpower, particularly physicians, and strategies to resolve the maldistribution problems are addressed. Rural areas do not have an adequate supply of qualified health manpower, and almost one-third of the nation's critical health manpower shortage areas are in southern…

This report of the development and validation of a criterion-referenced examination for physician's assistants contains an overview of phase 1 project activities (1972-74) and more detailed description and data on phase 2 activities (1975-76). The overview describes the rationale for the development of the examination. (It was the first certifying…

In this document, the West Virgina Higher Education Policy Commission provides a statistical evaluation of enrollment rates, academic achievement, scholarships and loans, training, and recruitment of students at major health sciences and rural health schools in West Virginia. Some of the highlights from this 2005 Report Card include: (1) Almost…

Supports renewed funding of the Appalachian Regional Commission's (ARC) "finish-up health plan" and "highway finish-up program." Discusses at length the need for primary care services, prevention of infant mortality, and the lack of physicians in Appalachia, and how the ARC plans can affect these needs. (LC)

Reviews the status and organization of the Cuban mental health system. Focuses on the deliberate and systematic interdependence of mental health, public health, and socio-political structures; inpatient treatment modes and rehabilitation programs; use of social networks to support discharged patients; community-based care; and primary to tertiary…

Traditionally, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants have been trained separately. In l977, the Family Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of California, Davis, and the Primary Care Associate Program at Stanford University merged clinical curricula. The cooperative program is described and its first year evaluated. (Author/JMD)