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E R Tilson

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PubMed1999

Implementation and evaluation of an interdisciplinary health professions core curriculum.

An interdisciplinary core curriculum has been implemented in the College of Health Professions at Armstrong Atlantic State University since spring 1996. The curriculum is designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for interprofessional practice. The courses are taught by interdisciplinary teams and are offered as electives or as part of major requirements in nursing, health science, physical therapy, dental hygiene, medical technology, radiologic sciences, and respiratory therapy. In addition to ongoing evaluation methods, a survey designed to assess the student and faculty perceptions of the experience has been conducted. Both groups agreed that the experience has had a positive impact on the students' professional performances, patient interactions, understanding of the health care delivery system, and health career preparation. Faculty agreed that teaching in an interdisciplinary team was a positive experience. The collaboration among the health professions' faculty has resulted in increased respect for one another and for others' disciplines. Although the experience places an additional burden on their workload, they agreed that the experience is beneficial, their efforts are worthwhile, and they would be willing to continue to teach interdisciplinary courses.

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PubMed1998

Health care's future? Look to the past.

Although health care is changing, and probably always will be subject to change, there are certain basic themes present at the founding of the U.S. health care system that remain important today. Although these themes could be seen as working against each other, proper attention to both might lead to a "marriage" that could optimize the system and provide, if not a solution, at least a workable system for health care.

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Competency, objectives and outcomes.

As we look at the literature from the 1970s and the present, it seems we have come full circle with regard to our understanding of objectives, competencies and outcomes. Our guidelines for writing them have become very complex. During the past few decades, health professions educators often have lost sight of the original intent and focused on the process of developing and writing objectives and competency statements. The process is now so complex that it is almost impossible to write a simple, understandable objective or competency statement. Perhaps that is why the "outcome" term was born. Outcome statements are really fairly broad competency statements. If we focus on the real purpose of objectives and make them simple, they become easier to evaluate. In the next article, we will explore methods for evaluating competence in the clinical setting.

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Educational and experiential effects on radiographers' radiation safety behavior.

Forty-four radiographers from 11 hospitals in Northern California were observed for radiation safety behaviors in six categories. A multiple regression analysis was performed to determine if there was a significant relationship between the six radiation safety behaviors and the radiographer's age, sex, type of professional training, years since completion of professional training, years of professional practice, time of day, and exposure frequency. The multiple regression analysis showed that there was a significant relationship between use of gonadal shielding and years since completion of professional training, years of professional practice, type of training, and age. The multiple regression analysis also showed that the number of repeated films due to technical error was significantly related to the type of professional training a radiographer received.

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The facilitated lecture.

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Managed care's impact on radiologic science education.

This special report describes the results of an ASRT-commissioned opinion survey of radiologic science program directors to gauge the estimated impact of managed care on radiologic science education. Specific topics explored include the effect of managed care on clinical education, student applications, finances and education. Comparisons were made by institution (hospital, associate and baccalaureate degree) and by discipline. Although the opinions of program directors suggest that managed care has impacted radiologic science education, it cannot be isolated as the causative factor. Also, programs do not appear to be meeting the educational desires of managers for new graduates, as described in several other studies.

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