- Title
- Trends in health professional education: changing student populations
- Creator
- Ryan, Susan; Paterson, Margo
- Relation
- Innovations in Allied Health Fieldwork Education: A Critical Appraisal p. 17-28
- Relation
- https://www.sensepublishers.com/product_info.php?products_id=1132&osCsid=
- Publisher
- Sense Publishers
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This chapter focuses on current trends impacting on professional education and provides a critical, interprofessional appraisal of these trends. Of necessity, the word “trend” denotes general tendencies, often in an upward direction, rather than hard facts. In fact the whole scene in both professional education and in descriptors of student populations is in a ferment of perpetual change, more so now than ever before. As you read this chapter and this book you must be a reader who is comfortable with the impermanence of knowledge and facts, realising that they are temporary, dynamic, constantly changing and therefore, of necessity, problematic and interesting enough to debate and to study. In this chapter we address some of the factors in these trends that we consider significant. First, we want to authenticate our credentials for writing an account about international trends. Second, we want to shine a different beam of light on the criticality that we believe needs to be applied to the literature and research about professional practice education and, indeed, on being “a professional” in these everchanging times. By illustrating these complexities in a conceptual model we want to give you a tool against which you can analyse and interpret your own professional educational scene, as well as compare your own experience with that of others from different parts of the world. Then, we examine the impact that credentialing could have on the professional orientation, level of reasoning and behaviours of students emerging from very different educational experiences. Finally, we consider the effects of all these external influences on the current “Generation Y” student population in two countries, Australia and Ireland, as their attitudes and behaviours also impact on professionalism.
- Subject
- health professional education; student populations; reasoning; education trends
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929154
- Identifier
- uon:10555
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789460913211
- Language
- eng
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