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I R Merrill

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PubMed1980

What health sciences programs want from biomedical communications.

A survey of all active U.S. members (1979) of the Association of Biomedical Communications Directors asked each of them to rank the importance of eight types of service to each professional program that his unit supports. Service priorities are reported for the programs characteristic of medicine, allied health, dentistry, nursing, and pharmacy. The services' orders of importance are program-related, which suggests that there is no single model of a biomedical communications unit and that each unit should be shaped by the particular program or programs that it supports.

Academic Medical Centers↗
PubMed1978

Biomedical communications units and their parent organizations: a survey.

A survey of the 89 biomedical communications units in U.S. institutions offering baccalaureate or higher level programs in the health sciences shows 32 units assigned to the headquarters of academic health centers, 39 assigned to constituent schools within centers, and 18 assigned to single schools not in centers. Sixty-five of the units are perceived to have a high level of importance by their parent organizations. Approximately 50% of the parent organizations authorize some physical decentralization of unit activities. Instructional development support is provided by 81% of the parent organizations, and biomedical communications units are delegated this responsibility twice as frequently as are other units within these organizations.

Communication↗