To help a community toward self-help, adult high school students were trained to work with families selected for having problem children in schools or being under stress. The training was based on a communication model. Evaluation of project and community-wide measures applicable for future efforts are discussed. (Author)

Community hospitals not affiliated with medical centers depend on foreign medical graduates for intern needs. (IR)

From paper delivered at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Cincinnati, Ohio, October 31, 1969. (IR)

Workshop on Medical School Curriculum focuses on the influence of today's medical school education on the totality of the physician's education. (IR)

Delivered at 80th annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 1, 1969. (IR)

Analyzes the reaction of 53 medical students to their work experience in 3 poverty areas of California during the summer of 1967. They and 50 students from other professional schools were placed by The Student Health Organization in dental, community, and Planned Parenthood clinics, county hospitals, school districts, and Head Start programs. (WM)

Describes the establishment of a nontraditional community health clinic for students in a baccalaureate program of nursing and the evaluation of the implementation of the experience. The learning needs of the students and the clinical practice needs of the faculty were met, and medical services were provided for a group with identified health…

Addresses the need for realignment of the traditional triad of academic functions--teaching, research, and service; and proposes a renewed emphasis on the notion of service in higher education, specifically in schools of public health. Faculty incentives and motivation for public service involvement are also discussed. (Author/CT)

A study determined the levels of treatment satisfaction among community mental health services recipients and if perceptions of treatment satisfaction were the same for both the recipients and the providers. The recipients, mothers of children treated at the unit, were satisfied with the treatment, but the providers perceived their satisfaction as…

Describes the implementation of the hospice philosophy in rural areas and provides a model of how formal helping systems and natural helping networks can work together effectively. Suggests the emergence of the hospice can reorient social workers to the basic concepts of helping. (Author/JAC)

Student nurse involvement in voluntary health care agencies helps prepare students for independent nursing roles and improves the public image of the nurse. Students survey agencies, choose one with which to work, write a report, draw up a work contract with an advisor and then participate in the agency's services. (CT)

The Balanced Service System specifies functions required to eliminate mental disabilities and environments in which services can be provided. The model was tested in western Pennsylvania. Although the number of agencies serving the mentally ill doubled between 1960 and 1976, relative availability of each service component remained stable.…

Explored the leadership behavior of administrators in Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs). Consideration and initiating structure were significantly (negatively) correlated with CMHC effectiveness in this sample. Multivariate models that contained both of these dimensions and reflected administrative behavior on two organizational levels…

The University of Michigan Center for Continuing Education of Public Health Professionals was designed as a model for lifelong learning programs for community health practitioners. The Center concentrates on systematic client-centered assessment of continuing education needs and plans and operates programs through community health associates, who…

Describes advance arrangements, local preparations and results of lead poisoning testing done in rural southeastern Illinois. Results confirm that lead poisoning is not confined to urban areas. (HS)