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C L Scanlan

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PubMed1986

Philosophical considerations in health professions continuing education.

Health professions continuing education is in a state of sprawling disarray. Much of this chaos can be attributed to a lack of clarity regarding its goals and purposes. A historical-philosophical analysis of the aims of continuing education for the health professions provides the basis for clarifying its major goal orientations. Application of this paradigm to practice helps explain underlying variations in the values, beliefs and premises currently characterizing health professions continuing education and can provide sound direction to those responsible for programmatic and policy-making decisions.

Education, Continuing↗
PubMed1986

Organizational and professional commitment as predictors of job satisfaction among allied health education program directors.

That institutionally employed professionals can exhibit divided commitments to their organization and profession is well documented. The impact such dual affiliation can have upon organizations, particularly academic institutions, is less well established. The purposes of this study were: (1) to describe the nature and magnitude of allied health education program directors' organizational and professional commitment and (2) to determine the utility of these measures in explaining variations in the job satisfaction of these professionals. A cross-sectional survey design gathered pertinent descriptive information and data on the organizational commitment, professional commitment, and job satisfaction of a modified cluster sample of program directors representing five allied health disciplines. Consistent with prior speculative assumptions regarding its importance, the professional commitment of these faculty was observed to exert a positive and independent effect upon the gratification they perceive in fulfilling their organizational roles. That a complementary, as opposed to conflicting, relationship exists between the organizational and professional commitment of allied health faculty has profound implications for academic administrators intent upon increasing the effectiveness of their organization.

Administrative Personnel↗
PubMed1986

A model for assessing the validity of allied health accreditation standards.

Historically, accreditation standards in allied health education have evolved using judgment and tradition as the basis for characterizing a quality program of learning. Recent efforts to address growing concerns over the lack of evidence to support standards perceived as arbitrary, costly, and prescriptive have been largely ineffective in catalyzing major change. Moreover, the fundamental assumption underlying specialized accreditation, that compliance with pre-established standards will favorably affect the outcome of the educational process, has heretofore remained untested. This paper provides a historical perspective on prior efforts to evaluate accreditation requirements and describes the conceptual framework, developmental considerations, application, and potential utility of a model employed to assess the validity of one allied health agency's accreditation standards.

Accreditation↗
PubMed1985

The continuing education activity of allied health professionals. Part 1) A descriptive and analytic profile.

The purposes of this study were to determine 1) the nature and magnitude of allied health professionals' continuing education (CE) activities, and 2) the utility of selected demographic and situational characteristics of these personnel as predictors of such activities. A cross-sectional survey design gathered demographic, situational and CE activity data from individuals representing three major allied health occupational clusters. Regarding participation in CE, analysis of the data indicates that those sampled tend to be active learners, that their efforts are more often self-directed than other-directed, and that the pattern of these activities is generally consistent with that observed among other health professional groups. In terms of predicting CE activity, the findings indicate that the situational attributes of these personnel account for more variation in reported levels of both self and other-directed learning efforts than do their demographic characteristics. A knowledge of these relationships has both practical importance for providers of CE and theoretical meaning for those who study this complex phenomenon.

Allied Health Personnel↗
PubMed1985

The continuing education activity of allied health professionals. Part 2) Motivational orientations for participation.

The purposes of this study were to determine 1) the extent to which selected groupings of allied health professionals differed in their orientations toward engaging in continuing education (CE), and 2) the utility of these orientations in predicting differences in their CE participation. A cross-sectional survey design gathered pertinent descriptive information and data on levels of participation in and orientations toward CE from individuals representing three major allied health occupational clusters. Observed differences in motivational orientations among subgroups of the sample suggest that a general shift from pragmatic purposes for participation to less utilitarian motives occurs as these personnel advance within their career lines. Moreover, the utility of these orientations in predicting CE participation was observed to vary substantially across the disciplines studied. An understanding of the perceived importance and predictive utility of allied health professionals' orientations toward participation can facilitate decision-making by those involved in both CE planning and policy formulation.

Allied Health Personnel↗
PubMed1976

Education research.

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Allied Health Personnel↗