Posts Tagged ‘healthcare’
Mass. Kicks Off Aid Program for High-Demand Fields
by John O. Harney
December 14, 2012
Massachusetts students working toward careers in high-demand fields such as science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and healthcare are eligible for a new scholarship program tied to the most critical employment needs, according to the state Department of Higher Education (DHE).
The Massachusetts High-Demand Professions Scholarship, created by the Massachusetts Legislature in FY13, will provide grants ...
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Gateway to Healthcare Careers for Vulnerable Students: A New Approach to the Teaching of Anatomy and Physiology
by Albert DeCiccio, Tammy Kenny, Linda Lippacher and Barry Flanary
October 25, 2011
At Southern Vermont College (SVC) and at our nation’s other colleges and universities, Anatomy and Physiology I (A&PI) is the gateway course into healthcare careers. Given the country’s growing workforce development needs in this field, it is critical that our first-year students accumulate the requisite body of knowledge in the course to pass it and ...
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Tales from the BIF
by John O. Harney
September 25, 2012
Click here for videos of BIF-8 storytellers!
The Business Innovation Factory (BIF) held its eighth annual collaborative innovation summit on Sept. 19 and 20 in Providence, and the key, as always, was the art of storytelling. No themes, said summit facilitator and BIF founder and “chief catalyst” Saul Kaplan. You decide which connections you ...
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