PROMOTING AND ATTRACTING STUDENTS TO CAREERS IN AGING SERVICES

Promoting health careers to rural students

Dr Carol McKinstry coordinates the La Trobe Rural Health School (LRHS) Occupational Therapy Program, which is based at the Bendigo campus in Victoria. Carol completed her PhD in 2007 and has been at La Trobe University since 2005 teaching into the graduate entry masters OT program at the Melbourne campus before establishing the program at Bendigo. As part of setting up the La Trobe Rural Health...

Attracting students into careers in food supply veterinary medicine.

[Attracting the best and brightest to careers in neurology].

Widespread interest in the neurosciences has led to the development of undergraduate college majors in neuroscience so that many students entering medical school are very interested in a career in our field. Exposure to clinical neurology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (PennMed) begins with observation of real patients in the 1 year coupled with the course “ Introduction t...

efl teachers job satisfaction and social capital in relation to students’ motivation

abstract this mixed method study examines whether there is any relationship among the variables of the study (job satisfaction, social capital and motivation). the researcher considered job satisfaction and social capital as independent variables; motivation is the dependent variable of the study. the researcher applied a questionnaire to assess each variable. to measure efl teachers’ job sati...

Attracting Youth to Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services in Uganda

Open since 1995, NTIHC is a drop-in center that offers free reproductive health services to youth, including diagnosis and treatment of STIs, family planning, pregnancy testing and counseling, and antenatal and postnatal care. In 2002, NTIHC began offering VCT two days per week and expanded its facility to provide waiting and counseling space for youth seeking VCT. AIC provided initial technica...