Gender competency in public administration education

Legal Education and Public Administration

Experiential Learning in Public Administration Education

The challenge to prepare public administtation students for the new workplace environment is obvious. Opinion poUs, politicians, and talk shows denigrate the performance of public administtators; the Past Office seeks a profit; government buildings contract for maintenance services; health care and corrections services are sliding toward .private delive1y.Unless public managers can provide serv...

IV. Public Education Prior to Vaccine Administration ‡

One of the principal objectives of the Middletown Oral Poliovirus Vaccine Program was to achieve as close to 100 per cent vaccination of the selected age group as possible. We had hoped also to be able to determine whether the oral vaccine, because of its simpler and pleasanter mode of administration , would be accepted by families who had rejected or had been indifferent to Salk-type vaccine. ...

Intercultural Competency in Public Health: A Call for Action to Incorporate Training into Public Health Education

Due to increasing national diversity, programs addressing cultural competence have multiplied in U.S. medical training institutions. Although these programs share common goals for improving clinical care for patients and reducing health disparities, there is little standardization across programs. Furthermore, little progress has been made to translate cultural competency training from the clin...

Reviewing Competency in Dental Education

The min imum requirements to practice as a competent dentist have always been under the scanner. While universit ies and dental boards around the world have constantly endeavored to produce and maintain a quality dentist, there have often been questions on how the respective skills are to be assessed. Presently competency-based education focuses on developing the professional skills, which are ...