A patient care trainee program.

For the past 2 years, a special program at Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Tampa Unit (SHCC) has been tremendously successful. The hospital hired college students to work as patient care trainees (PCTs). The program was designed because the hospital needed cost-effective personnel and wanted to participate in education and development of health care professionals. The success of the program with respect to improvements in quality of care, evidence of effective education, and savings in salary is described.

[Not Available]. / Blessures et maladies chez les chasseurs de chevreuil.

General practice and out-patient emergency records for a five-year period were reviewed for injuries and illnesses that occurred during the week of deer rifle hunting on Manitoulin Island. Of 65 hunters who were identified, most had lacerations secondary to knife injuries. There were two deaths (one shooting and one in a motor vehicle accident), and 19 persons required hospitalization. More than half of these serious accidents occurred on the weekends immediately preceding or following the hunting season. Incidence of injury or illness requiring medical attention was calculated to be 0.23% per hunter each week of the deer season. Spot checks for alcohol and improved hunter safety courses might prevent many of these injuries and illnesses.

Injury and illness among deer hunters.

General practice and out-patient emergency records for a five-year period were reviewed for injuries and illnesses that occurred during the week of deer rifle hunting on Manitoulin Island. Of 65 hunters who were identified, most had lacerations secondary to knife injuries. There were two deaths (one shooting and one in a motor vehicle accident), and 19 persons required hospitalization. More than half of these serious accidents occurred on the weekends immediately preceding or following the hunting season. Incidence of injury or illness requiring medical attention was calculated to be 0.23% per hunter each week of the deer season. Spot checks for alcohol and improved hunter safety courses might prevent many of these injuries and illnesses.