Recently, on the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) microedu listserv, an email thread developed in which a number of microbiology instructors expressed concern that many colleges and universities are dropping the requirement for microbiology for pre-nursing and pre-allied health students. As a parent of a disabled child and a microbiology educator, I would like to give you my perspective ...

INTRODUCTION This study sought to characterise the allied health professional (AHP) workforce of the Northern Territory (NT), Australia, in order to understand the influence of student supervision on workload, job satisfaction, and recruitment and retention. METHODS The national Rural Allied Health Workforce Study survey was adapted for the NT context and distributed through local AHP network...

J. P. Barfield, D. C. Cobler, Eddie T. C. Lam, James Zhang, and George Chitiyo Department of Exercise Science, Physical Education and Wellness, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, Tennessee; Department of Physical Education, Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia; Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Kine...

“I must admit before I did honours I thought you’d either be a researcher or you’d be a clinical podiatrist, but now that I’ve done both......well basically you need to be keeping up with your research so you know what to do clinically, so it’s all intertwined” (Rachel)*. How do you view yourself as an allied health professional a clinical practitioner with no time for research, or a researcher...

background and objectives: stress among students of the health sciences can lead to reduced performance of future healthcare human resources. to address this threat there is a need to develop a robust understanding of the nature and intensity of stress in these professionals. to help approaching this goal, the present study assessed stress-induced life change in students of tehran university of...

"Anatomy and Pathology Workshop" is a cadaver-based outreach program that models medical education to large groups of high school students. This study was designed to evaluate the impact of this program on students' knowledge of anatomy and interest in biomedical science. A total of 144 high school students participated in the workshop in 2015. Preworkshop and postworkshop assessments were admi...

The Department of Sport Science and Wellness Education (SSWE) and the Athletic Health Care Technical Preparation (Tech Prep) Program (AHCTP) at The University of Akron (UA) are successfully fostering collaboration among a number of different entities (faculty members, allied health professionals, and undergraduate, graduate, and high school students) that can be used as a model by other univers...