Journal of allied health
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Journal of allied health · Feb 1985
The redundancy of student comments and numerical ratings in evaluations of teaching.
Student evaluation of teaching effectiveness is widely used in undergraduate institutions as one element of determining overall faculty effectiveness. The evaluation format typically consists of (1) a number of questions the student answers by indicating a numerical rating and (2) an open-ended section for written comments. Some faculty members believe that the numerical ratings are not taken seriously by the students, and that the written comments impose greater accountability on the part of students. ⋯ The highest correlations were between student comments and two items related to overall teaching effectiveness. Students who evaluated instructors at either extreme on the spectrum of effectiveness were most likely to include written comments. Based on the consistency of numerical ratings and written comments we recommend that only the numerical ratings be used as part of the promotion and tenure decision-making process.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Journal of allied health · Nov 1984
An interdisciplinary teaching program in geriatrics for physician's assistants.
An interdisciplinary curriculum committee within the Division of Family Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, developed and taught a beginning course in clinical geriatrics for medical students and student physician's assistants, physical therapists, and nurse practitioners. Through a series of Saturday classes held in community facilities serving seniors, physician's assistant students had the opportunity to learn clinical geriatrics from a faculty team including a physician's assistant, physician, nurse, physical therapist, social worker, gerontologist, and health educator. Local seniors served as consumer consultants and models of health and vigor. ⋯ In this well-received course, the role of the physician's assistant in health care was made evident to their future physician employers and physical therapy co-workers through faculty modeling as well as through informal contacts and patient conferences. Older people constitute a growing and increasingly medically underserved population. Team training may serve to stimulate physician's assistant students to include geriatrics in their career plans while educating their future physician employers about their role.
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Journal of allied health · Nov 1984
Recertification: toward the development of standards for assuring continued competence.
NCCPA, in collaboration with NBME, has begun an investigation that may lead to the development of standards for measuring continued competence. In 1981, the 1980 Primary Care Physician's Assistants Certification Examination was administered as a recertification examination to 1,166 PAs who were originally certified in 1975. The scores were standardized by using the standardization constants for the 1980 Certification Examination reference group. ⋯ Correlations calculated between recertificants' performance on their original certification examination and their performance on the recertification examination showed a positive relationship between the two examinations. Their performance on a variety of biographical variables was also analyzed, and the only variable that significantly changed their performance was their current employment status. The validity of the test for making judgments about the competence of experienced practitioners was not addressed by the current study and is a crucial question in evaluating the test as a recertification instrument.
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Journal of allied health · Feb 1984
Recertification and relicensure in the allied health professions.
This article identifies and clarifies some of the major issues concerning recertification and relicensure of allied health practitioners. Various methods of recredentialing are discussed; while mandatory continuing education may not provide evidence of competency, it may be more acceptable to health care practitioners than any other type of requirement. ⋯ If such a recredentialing program is developed, the credentialing board and the practitioners--and ultimately employers, third-party payers, and consumers--must bear the additional costs. The major questions are "Is it necessary?" and "Is it worth it?"
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Journal of allied health · Aug 1981
Collective bargaining: bargaining unit placement of the allied health department chair.
Since the presence of collective bargaining is assured, more specific focus on the impact and implications of this presence for allied health education is increasingly meaningful. The departmental chair stands to be influenced more than other administrative positions by the appearance of collective bargaining. Indeed, resolution of the question of whether the allied health chair is appropriately included in or excluded from bargaining units predominantly made up of faculty members may have profound implications for faculty and central administration. ⋯ This article selectively explores not only the impact of collective bargaining and unit determination in higher education but also bargaining unit placement criteria operative in private and public academic sectors. State and federal legislative and judicial action relative to the bargaining unit placement of department chairs is also addressed. The gravity of the issue of bargaining unit placement of allied health department chairs means that all concerned should broaden their awareness of the relevant factors in this process.