US doctoral education: critical shortages and plans for reshaping the future.
The paper describes the major features of doctoral curricula in the United States for speech-language pathology, speech, language, hearing science and the AUD degree in audiology. Critical shortages in doctoral personnel in the United States, factors that are considered to be contributing to the problem of shortages and actions that have been recommended for reshaping the future of doctoral education are also discussed.
Gallagher
Tanya M
TM
College of Applied Life Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA. tmgallag@uiuc.edu
D001298:Audiology / Q000193:education* / Q000639:trends*; D003479:Curriculum; D004500:Education, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends*; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*; D013334:Students / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States