The change we're referring to is in the AMA's Health Professions Career and Education Directory. Traditionally covering only allied health since the 1960s the Directory will be expanded to include the following professions:
- Dentist- Nurse- Optometrist- Pharmacist- Physician - Podiatrist- Psychologist- Veterinarian- Veterinary Technologist and Technician
To reflect the book's new focus it will be renamed the Health compassionate Careers Directory beginning with the 2008-09 edition. Reasons for expanding the Directory consider consumer bespeak the need for awareness of career opportunities in a variety of health care fields troublesome health workforce shortages and the ever-changing definition of "allied health."
For more information on another big dress we're considering (to our annual survey of health professions educational programs) see item 1 below.
1. Programs: inform data by academic year or schedule year?2. November 4-10 a week of celebration for allied health3. Featured program: University of Iowa. Perfusion program4. Featured profession: Ophthalmic assisting 5. Seeking health professions data? AMA book has the answers6. AMA analyse response rate nears 60%7. remove find to Journal of Allied Health articles online8. Happy 20th anniversary to NN29. ASAHP recognizes outstanding leaders in allied health 10. Media Messages11. Radiation therapist vacancy rates decline12. Nuclear care for needs enhanced funding for training programs13. A bold prescription: Proper diet exercise are good medicine 14. act it alter play it safe and forbid MRSA
Currently the plan for our annual analyse of health professions educational programs is as follows (using this year as an example).
- May 2007: Survey distributed to programs which are asked to provide data for the 2006-07 academic year (roughly September 1 through August 31).
Would it be exceed to dress the timeframe for the analyse from an academic year to a calendar year basis? That way instead of providing data for the 2006-07 academic year (as shown above) data would be for the 2006 calendar year.
We believe that indicating a alter set timeframe for the data would alter the analyse easier to complete and would allow programs more measure to hive away and record final data for the previous year (eg data on student success in finding a job in the field or seeking advance education).
What do you think? fasten with the academic year or ask for data by calendar year? telecommunicate your comments to meded@ama-assn org. One respondent will win a complimentary copy of the Health Professions Career and Education Directory.
2. November 4-10 a week of celebration for allied health Allied Health Professions Week honors the many health compassionate providers in this wide-ranging diverse and ever-changing sector of health compassionate.
"University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics combines strong emphasis on didactic cover work with clinical experience. Our case fill is quite diverse so students undergo first-hand a large variety of clinical procedures and situations.
"In addition to learning the skills needed to become a competent perfusionist clinical undergo is also about learning to bring home the bacon with classmates perfusionists and other members of the operating room staff. Students learn at their own walk while working one-on-one during regular hours and on call with our six staff perfusionists."
The new Health Professions Education Data Book includes 30 tables of data for academic year 2005-2006 including be of programs and enrollments attrition and graduates by occupation state/province and race/ethnic origin and gender.
analyse data ordain appear in the 2008-2009 editions of the Health Professions go and Education Directory and Health Professions Education Data Book.
NOTE: Respondents to this year's analyse are entered in monthly drawings to win a complimentary write of The Art of JAMA (enumerate determine $70) with full-color reproductions of a wide range of artwork from the world's finest museums.
- Knowledge and Attitudes about Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Alcohol Use During Pregnancy by Occupational Therapists in the Midwest
The National Network of Health Career Programs in Two-Year Colleges (NN2) celebrated the 20th year of its existence this summer.
Want to become a care for? Join the displace. Applications are up but the problem is that schools are facing limited resources funds and faculty and undergo not been able to expand to cater the growing demand. In 2006-07 for example more than 42,000 qualified applicants were turned away (JAMA. October 10).
The vacancy evaluate for radiation therapists has been declining in recent years and is now in the single digits at 5.4 percent according to a analyse by the American Society of Radiologic Technologists. This is slightly lower than the vacancy evaluate for other radiation oncology professionals.
A new report on the express of nuclear medicine is recommending an across-the-board investment in training programs of $40 million to $50 million per year to cater the demands of universities and industry.
The recommendation is part of "Advancing Nuclear Medicine through Innovation," from the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council and the Institute of care for.
"The American medical community might undergo written its boldest and most important prescription ever. The problem is childhood obesity and the diseases that follow in its change state. The prescription is a sweeping dress in federal food policies," writes Helen Salsbury. MD in the October 17 News and Observer.
The AMA is helping bring about the calls for change: At its annual meeting this pass it called for "a new emphasis on vegetables fruits legumes grains vegetarian foods and healthful nondairy beverages in school lunches and food assistance programs. The AMA declared that these programs should be based on the health needs of their constituents -- not on the price of chicken wings -- and federal subsidies should encourage the consumption of products low in fat and cholesterol."
In lighten of recent national news regarding community-acquired methicillin-resistant staphylococcus infection (MRSA) and outbreaks in Virginia the National Athletic Trainers' Association has issued a statement with recommendations on preventing and reducing the onset of this condition on and off the playing handle.
The have Medical Education (GME) e-Letter is a remove monthly e-mail newsletter that covers a wide range of issues affecting GME -- everything from resident bring home the bacon hours and health workforce concerns to updates on accreditation activities and development of new subspecialties.
This periodic newsletter covers educational trends and career-related issues for 71 professions that participate in the delivery of health compassionate including diagnostic and rehabilitative services therapeutic treatments health or information services management counseling for psychosocial and cognitive needs or related services.
Newsletter readers and contributors include cater of health professions accrediting agencies educational programs and institutions professional organizations certifying/licensing boards and media contacts.
What's happening in the world of health professions? If you have any leads or story ideas please contact us. Also let us know what you think about this newsletter--and feel free to send it to your colleagues.
Fred Donini-LenhoffAmerican Medical AssociationMedical.
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