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Showing 1 to 20 of 917 for “"Professions"”.
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Operational Readiness for High-Risk Professions
… book, describing research which spans diverse professions. Sherpa guiding, homelessness services, global health, dentistry, neurosurgery, and policing—each seeking evidence-based solutions for operational challenges, training improvements, and preservation of expertise. The central focus is on …
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Gendering professions : an analysis of peer effects
… is important both to professionals and to the professions of which they are members. In addition to being crucial for professional success at an individual level, and for the maintenance of professional boundaries and autonomy at the collective level, professional identity is an important …
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Building a diverse health professions workforce? Changes in enrollment and completion among underserved populations in grant supported health professions pathways
… of minoritized populations in health professions is a rising concern for educators, scholars, and policy makers (Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce, 2004; The Sullivan Commission, 2004). This reflects …
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Academic Tenure: Defining Scholarship in the Health Professions
… responsibilities of faculty in the allied health professions are unique in that they are also involved in the provision of patient care, the development of community partnerships and the task of addressing vital workforce needs. A broader definition of scholarship would provide health professions' …
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Critical thinking and Empathy in the Helping Professions
… a professional degree in a subset of the helping professions. Using a form of discursive psychology for analysis, three major findings were presented. First, students’ discussions produced a wide array of meanings for critical thinking, but an interpretative repertoire for critical thinking was …
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Increasing the use of research findings in four allied health professions
… gap persists in the allied health professions because they perceive or experience barriers to research utilisation. The focus of this work was on overcoming these barriers to increase research utilisation in four allied health professions: nutrition and dietetics, occupational …
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Gender difference in professional developmental relationships within male and female-dominated professions
The purpose of this study was to identify differences in professional developmental relationship functions between males and females and between nurses and non-nurses. Quantification of the professional development relationship functions was accomplished using a demographic scale and the …
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Curriculum Governance in the Professions: A Comparative and Sociological Analysis of Engineering Accreditation
Professional education operates in a tension between its two key institutional homes – universities and professional bodies. Curriculum governance – the structures and processes for making decisions about the curriculum – is embedded in higher education but influenced by professional accreditation. …
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Perceptions of Dementia Across Students in Health Professions Programs at Texas State University
Background: Dementia is a progressive degenerative disease that can result in decline of cognitive functioning. Individuals with dementia often seek therapy or treatment from a variety of health professionals. Due to the rising incidence of dementia in the world, it is important that future …
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The impact of non-standard working practices on the accountancy and architecture professions.
… of theories of non-standard working within the professions, examining theories of time deviance within the professional labour market. It develops and expands existing theories of professional development by exploring the development of the professional project from within professions as well as …
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Technical communication in place-making professions: Exploring the network pictures of urban designers
<p>This dissertation addresses how professional writing as a field can pay attention to broader definitions of design in order to help further conversations of spatial justice (the act of helping to promote equity in matters of development in urban spaces). I begin by noting the conversations that …
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The evolution of the medical professions in eighteenth-century Ireland: An institutional perspective
… and had the right to regulate their respective professions. Practitioners in different regions of Europe developed in a different manner, and eighteenth-century practitioners in Ireland developed independently from their English counterparts. In common with Britain and Europe in the eighteenth …
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Development of an Inventory of Student Preferred Learning Style in Health Professions Education
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:55:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7913586.pdf: 7599888 bytes, checksum: adbe22ea43bdca94ceb9a879f2628190 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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The recontextualisation of architecture and accounting education: Views from the academy and the professions
… and accounting, particularly in relation to how professions engaged with higher education. The recontextualisation of professional learning into the academy was identified by participants as having created issues of authenticity, autonomy and surveillance. As a result, new practitioners were …
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