In this qualitative study, we consider student experiences with and perceptions of teaching methods that are clinical skill-based (e.g., simulation role plays). Focus groups included Master of Social Work students (N = 40) from six universities in the United States. A framework-guided content analysis was used and revealed four discussion areas:…

Social work students' experiences with termination are rarely explored. This paper discusses the results of a survey of 54 MSW interns regarding termination and, in particular, premature termination resulting from placement completion. Twenty-four percent of respondents experienced natural terminations, 35% experienced client-initiated ones, and…

Examines the goals to which legal education should aspire with a view to developing clinical programs in the U.S. and Australia. (HS)

Books, monographs, articles, manuals, pamphlets, films, projects, and institutions that are helpful resources for field experience programs are listed and briefly described. (Editor/PG)

The North Carolina Internship Office has an operational objective to establish a network of programs which extend opportunities for service-learning to students enrolled in the 45 senior public and private colleges in the state. (Editor)

This paper examines the characteristics of student workers, the types of structures for supervising student field experience are noted, supervisory functions are suggested, and the potentials of good supervision are summarized. (Author)

Reviews an experimental program in clinical legal education at N.Y.U. (HS)

The overall concerns of program design of field experience programs are dealt with, including funding, academic credit, and program administration. (Editor/PG)

This discussion is limited to specific opportunities and methods of supervising students rather than encompassing supervisory techniques in general. This paper: (1) examines the characteristics of student workers from the supervisory point of view, (2) notes the type of structures for supervising student field experience, (3) suggests supervisory…

Kentucky's AHES offers health care students part of their clinical instruction in practice situations and in regions of the state removed from the major academic health science centers. Pharmacy students may choose an off-campus semester in either the fall, spring or summer since the fall of 1973. (LBH)

Although many school psychology programs use university-based clinics as field placements for school psychology students, there is little information in the literature on how these clinics are organized, administered, and funded or on the nature, duration, and sequencing of clinic field experiences. A national telephone survey of 71 directors of…

Students are playing a significant role in expanding the options in field experience education, pioneering new ways of functioning--independent and self-initiating--and in creating mature relationships with faculty. (Editor)

After spending seven weeks in a nursing home, nursing students came away from the experience with a new respect for the aged, a realistic idea of the problems facing the nursing staff in the extended care facility, and new image of nursing homes. (Author)

While experiential learning has become a viable educational concept, administrative problems persist in efforts to build it into the structure of a university or college. (Editor)

Results of the Patient Encounter Project are reported, which documented all clinical experiences of 36 medical students for seven months in the Rural Physician Associate Program and compared these experiences with those of a control group of 26 third-year students in the regular curriculum at the University of Minnesota.