Intended as a guide for developing emergency medical-care training, these six curriculum outlines have been used and adapted to the personnel development needs of both the rural community hospital and the large metropolitan hospital. The outlines are preceded by a discussion of the principles of learning by John George, who emphasizes the…

This account of the history of the National Science Foundation Elementary Institutes begins with the National Science Foundation (NSF) Act of 1950. The Cooperative College-School Science Program and pilot programs prior to fiscal year 1959 are described. Separate sections are devoted to the presentation of statistics for each Summer Institute…

Historical and present-day developments indicate that the continuing education of physicians is one of the most important problems in medical education today. The gap between scientific knowledge and application is increasing, largely because of the rapid advance of research, imbalance in the quantity, quality, and availability of opportunities…

The major purpose of an interpersonal communications workshop is to provide participants the opportunity to acquire knowledge and practice skills in face-to-face communication, individual communicating style, group and organizational factors which affect communication, and continued improvement of individual communication skills. The exercises in…

A description is given of the history and current status of graduate level engineering courses and degrees at Ohio locations not readily accessible to existing private or public institutions. Recent demands for additional off-campus programs are due in part to the need of established engineers to study new areas at the advanced level. Ohio…

A three-year, in-house engineering course offered to selected General Electric Company engineers is discussed. It is designed to develop the ability to identify and solve real engineering problems. The course may be taken concurrently with college courses in a cooperative program that can result in a graduate degree in engineering. (MLH)

The Long-Range Planning Committee of the Rhode Island Library Association (RILA) was charged with assessing the needs of all types of libraries and library agencies in the state as well as their client groups, and with making recommendations for future service patterns in the state. The committee's deliberations produced these recommendations: (1)…

This manual is designed to help lawyers develop the skills needed to present effective, stimulating continuing legal education (CLE) lectures. It focuses on the particular purpose and nature of CLE lecturing, relationships and interplay of personalities in CLE, commitments and constraints which lecturers should observe, program structure and…

This manual presents a perspective on counseling in veteran's education, and includes information and ideas for colleges to assist veterans in preparing for and entering higher education. The sections of the manual are: The Target Population; Program Objectives and Organization (Functions of Guidance and Counseling, Who Is a Counselor, Counselor…

A common dilemma faces libraries of all types--discovering and managing manpower resources effectively. With librarianship increasingly becoming a service-oriented profession, manpower is the most essential resource. Staff development and continuing education offer partial promise of solution, but evidence of the efforts presently underway is not…

This publication explains the concept of the Multi-Institutional Teacher Education Center (MITEC) in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The center emphasizes the shared responsibility of public schools, communities, students, the state department of education, and colleges in providing continuous professional development of pre- and in-service…

The goals of this institute were: (1) to develop guidelines and a matrix for short- and long-range planning of vocational education programs in metropolitan areas, and (2) to apply the matrix in planning for a single metropolitan area. In the first phase of the institute, guidelines were developed for planning both direct and ancillary services to…

The basic objective of the institute was to improve the library effectiveness of the attendees and to develop their potential for future leadership. An intense and concentrated program of learning opportunities focused on increasing the personal and professional competence of its nine participants. A model was designed, implemented and evaluated…

A Master's degree program in engineering in Portland, Oregon, was taught by faculty members who commuted from the School of Engineering at Oregon State University 80 miles away. The one three-hour meeting per week schedule maintained by this program didn't produce the quality of course that resulted from on-campus instruction by the same…

This pilot project was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of exchanging professional personnel of a medical school and a community hospital as a method of stimulating the internal communications practices of physicians at the community hospital. The impact upon the attitudes and educational policies and activities of community hospital…