This paper reports some of the things we have learned about doctors who misuse alcohol and drugs, and what has been accomplished over the past three years by the Project for Doctors on Chemicals, a joint program of the Donwood Institute in Toronto, the Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario, and ...

Advocates of the psychiatry internship believe the experience fosters professinal maturity. The authors examined the maturing process of 10 psychiatry residents during their internship year. Changes in the interns' professional identity including expectations of self and others are described and seen as a goal of the experience. The authors outline ...

A training program of paraprofessionals was developed in a university teaching hospital. Trainees were exposed to seminars and a supervised practicum. The objectives of the experience included sensitization of persons in the natural helping network to (a) psychosocial needs of seriously ill persons and their families, (b) experience and comfort ...

Arrangements for extramural education including "seeing practice" experience in nine European veterinary schools (Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, Helsinki, Stockholm, Hannover, Ghent, Toulouse and Vienna) are described. Considerable differences existed between three UK schools, and between them and the Continental schools, where arrangements were usually voluntary. The amount of extramural experience in ...

A total of 315 Northern Ireland university students were compared to 302 Republic of Ireland university students in terms of death anxiety, manifest anxiety, and perception of dangerousness of aspects of their environment and attitudes toward the civil disturbances in Northern Ireland. Also using these variables in the Northern Ireland ...

More than 1,200 students, parents, and professionals completed a questionnaire designed to assess knowledge and experience with cleft palate. Professionals knew more about cleft palate and had had more experience with it than either parents or students. Parents, however, knew more about cleft palate and had had more experience with ...

The results of a baseline October 1974 to March 1975 survey are analyzed to describe what constitutes radiopharmacists' education, training, and professional practice. Frequency distributions for the following descriptors are presented: age, location, highest degree earned, major radiopharmaceutical training, years of experience, time devoted to radiopharmacy, principal place of work, ...

The Occupational Knowledge Test (OKT) 101-B was administered to 784 air traffic control trainees who entered the FAA Academy's 16-week training course in 1976. All trainees completed the nonradar laboratory portion of the training and, in addition, completed a preemployment questionnaire. Based on responses to the questionnaire, the trainees were ...

The decision to add a fourth year of training with emphasis on a primary care internship experience has created serious problems for most psychiatric residency training programs. The logistic problems involved in having a department of psychiatry develop an internship program are formidable. The experiences being provided are less than ...

Two experiments were conducted to compare the effects of several prompting and reinforcement procedures on the participation of elderly citizens in a nutritious meal program. Experiment I employed a variation of the multiple-baseline design across three groups of approximately 60 households each. Elderly persons not previously participating in the program ...

An experimental method using literature as a creative and acculturating instrument is described. Universal 'social models' are elicited from literature which are used in the learning process by students through their application to situations they personally experience. This assists in the expansion of their creativity and personal socio-cultural development.

A graduate student specializing in mental retardation found few pertinent electives as well as little opportunity for field work experience. A special arrangement was made for appropriate field work experiences in three types of settings--a large residential institution, school programs, and nursing care facilities. There was little time to view ...

The educational, sociologic and economic justifications for a recent decision to require an internship type of postgraduate experience in psychiatric training are discussed. There are many practical disadvantages to adding this requirement. Depending on the type of internship developed, such experiences may also impair rather than facilitate the trainee's progress ...

In a study of Edinburgh students in their first clinical year it was found that a sizeable proportion had had some prior experience of hospital life and work from vacation jobs--such as being porters, auxiliary nurses and so on. Students' retrospective accounts of such experience are reported. The most salient ...

Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage. The student experiences progress with increasing responsibility to the ultimate functioning as an administrative dietitian under supervision. It is believed that the experiences of attachment learning will enable the ...

This paper describes a survey administered to 78 junior and senior level occupational therapy students to determine their rationale for the selection of field work experiences. On the 67 correct returns the major considerations for selection, by priority, were the geographical location, the reputation of the center, and the stipends ...

Data on postgraduate training and work experience of a sample of 850 Foreign Medical Graduates (FMGs) taking the January 1973 ECFMG examination in the U.S. are presented. It was found that 485 (57%) of the respondents had specialty training and, of these 485, 59 per cent were certified in a ...

One hundred chest radiographs, randomly selected from a hospital population, were read by 8 radiologists at 4 different levels of training and experience. All statements in the 800 interpretations were analyzed for accuracy. The analysis was based on deviation from a "true" report. Approximately 26% of significant and potentially significant ...

I have listed some of the ways in which the lowland tropics are not such a warm and wonderful place for the farmer, some of the reasons why it may be unreasonable to expect him to cope with the problems, and some of the ways in which the temperate zones ...

Two experiments demonstrated the effects of study questions on student test performance in an introductory college course. Students in both experiments correctly answered study question items 20 to 30% more frequently than non-study question probes. Furthermore, mean performance on study question items was better than 90% during all phases of ...

This is the home page of the National Secretariat for Urban Regeneration in Denmark. The site presents the background of this experiment and a brief description of the work relating to the twelve projects comprising the experiment. The site provides an insight into the strategic planning behind the experiment, useful ...

This new database has been developed by the Higher Education Academy : Health Sciences and Practice Network to enable students with disabilities and lecturers from the nursing and allied health professions to share their experiences of studying and training. The database records staff and students' experiences, giving both the helpful ...

The introduction of Project 2000 diploma-level courses in Scotland raised many questions about how a smooth preparation and transition could be effected. One of the main difficulties related to how the new students' supernumerary status would affect their learning experiences in clinical areas, and how practitioners could be helped to ...

Quality clinical placement experiences are essential for effective student learning. Key factors that can influence this experience are students not feeling welcome in the clinical setting and limited opportunities for them to engage in learning. From a review of the literature and of personal experiences, this paper presents some guidelines ...

Most students experience good and bad mentoring throughout their training. Bad mentors can cause serious problems further down the line, particularly if they 'fail to fail' incompetent students. However, the pressure on mentors is immense and students may not have realistic expectations. The Nursing and Midwifery Council and the RCN ...

The purpose of this program is to develop an experimental prototype gas discharge display panel with internal storage capability. The panel will consist of a X-Y matrix of individual gas cells each of which can be selected and fired by the application of a short triggering pulse. The objectives are ...

A system designed for use in complex operant conditioning experiments is described. Some of its key features are: (a) plugboards that permit the experimenter to change either from one program to another or from one analysis to another in less than a minute, (b) time-sharing of permanently-wired, electronic logic components, ...