These conference proceedings contain eight research papers on current findings, trends, and issues on health-related topics that have an impact on health occupations education. Presentations include "Update on Health Occupations Education" (Catherine B. Junge); "Reliability Considerations in Measuring Health Occupations Performance" (James Noel Wilmoth), an analysis of three reasons why reliability is a troublesome concept in educational research; "Types of Continuing Education Available Compared to Types Desired by Small Hospital Laboratory Personnel" (Shirley A. Baker); "Modular Competency-Based Geriatric Nursing Assistant Curriculum" (Dorothy M. Witmer), a report on a study to determine the essential components of a curriculum and development of that curriculum; "Changes in Health Care: Effects on Curriculum Revision" (Beverly Richards), results of a pilot study to examine essential behaviors of respiratory therapists and how and where those behaviors could best be learned; "Post-Secondary Health Occupations Students' Preferences for Accessing, Processing, and Judging Information" (Karen E. Gable); "Attitudes toward Disabled Persons as Perceived by Health Occupations Classroom Teachers" (Norma J. Walters, et al.); and "Nurse and Patient Relationship in B.S.N. Curriculum Development" (Elizabeth N. Stokes). (YLB)