title: Effectiveness of career-development courses for nontraditional premedical students: improving professional identity.
abstract: The purposes of this study were to examine the effects of three career-development courses on the professional identities of participating students as measured by My Vocational Situation and to investigate the effect of gender on students' responses to the scale. A total of 64 students enrolled in a special premedical program took the scale as a pretest and again as a posttest after the completion of three career-development courses. Analysis yielded significant differences between pre- and posttest scores for the three subscales of Vocational Identity, Occupational Information, and Barriers. No significant gender differences were observed at pre- or posttest. Implications for further research designed to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention strategies in career development are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Medical/Dental Education Preparatory Program, School of Medicine, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale 62901-4323.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Henry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002321:Career Choice; D004493:Education; D004501:Education, Medical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012649:Self Concept; D014830:Vocational Guidance