An examination of role identification by students in health education and health services administration.
This research was designed to test the extent to which health education and health services administration students' perceptions of their roles as professionals matched the expectations of professional faculty. These perceptions were found to match in general. However, doubt was cast on the extent to which internships or practicums contributed to this result, since there was no change in student responses between the beginning of the junior year and end of the senior year, a period which includes fieldwork and most of the professional coursework presumed to influence professional development. Additional research is required to test this result with other student populations in other health professions and identify the point at which professional role and task definitions are amenable to change.
Roemer
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Department of Health, College of Health Professions, University of Lowell, MA 01854.
Lorentzen
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Galuszka
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D005178:Faculty; D006266:Health Education; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000193:education; D006801:Humans; D007397:Internship, Nonmedical; D008404:Massachusetts; D012380:Role; D013336:Students, Health Occupations / Q000523:psychology*