24B SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1996
LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD
Range of programs adapts to changes in health care
- KU's School of Allied Health offers courses across a wide health care spectrum.
ELISSA MONROE/KU MEDICAL CENTER PHOTO
BY MARK FAGAN
JOURNAL-WORLD WRITER
Students listen to professor Chukuka Enwemeka, far right, lecture on the musculoskeletal system. Enwemeka is chair of the physical therapy education department in Kansas University's School of Allied Health at the KU Medical Center.
While training professionals to shape an ever-changing and complex health care industry, the School of Allied Health at Kansas University wants to make sure its offerings remain broad and diverse enough to keep up.
There's plenty of work to be had, said Lydia Wingate, dean of allied health.
"Many of our students have job offers before they have graduated," she said. "I believe that with capitated managed care — and the need to maintain quality care — allied health professionals will be in great demand, since they are the ones who will assist the physicians and nurse practitioners by providing a range of services for less cost."
A 1993 report from the PEW Health Professions Commission reported that allied health professions account for more than 60 percent of the health care work force, spanning more than 200 disciplines.
Defined broadly, allied health professions include all health-related disciplines except nursing, medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, veterinary medicine, optometry, pharmacy and pediatry.
That leaves plenty of room to learn, train and conduct research at the school, which was established in 1974 at the Kansas University Medical Center and remains one of three academic units at the med center.
Of last year's 248 graduates, nearly 98 percent obtained professional licenses on their first try.
"I believe that we are doing some wonderful, innovative things at KU Medical Center," said Wingate, who has been dean since February 1992. "Allied health professionals are in critically short supply nationwide, and therefore these professions are an excellent career choice."
The school includes 10 departments: biometry; cytotechnology; dietetics and nutrition; health information management; hearing and speech; medical technology; nurse anesthesia; occupational therapy; physical therapy; and respiratory care.
The school is competitive, accepting 221 of 680 applicants (32.5 percent) this fall. The school's total fall enrollment is 541.
This year, Wingate said, the school is preparing to bring a new distance education program in
physical therapy to southeast Kansas. In partnership with Pittsburgh State University and the med center's Southeast Area Education Center — plus support from a southeast hospital consortium — the program will give southeast Kansas residents a chance to receive a physical therapy education without having to leave home.
A similar program, in nurse anesthesia, already is operating in southeast Kansas.
"In addition to our second distance education program, I am also confident that we will continue the cultural change which began nearly two years ago to a Total Quality Management environment, and increase the multicultural competence of our faculty and staff in order to increase the cultural diversity of our school," Wingate said.
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