Using Recent Graduates as Five-minute Guest Speakers to Provide Professional Socialization and Topical Context for Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Timothy Olsen ◽  
Author(s):  
Maggie Roe-Shaw

This paper illuminates the professional socialization process in a variety of physiotherapy workplaces through engagement with a range of facilities and participants (including new graduates, physiotherapy managers and experienced physiotherapists). It explores being and becoming a physiotherapist, and gives recognition to the importance of the workplace in the professional socialization process. It reports positive workplace experiences for recent graduates, and identifies links between these experiences, professional career structures, and the attrition rate from the profession. Just how well prepared are physiotherapists for the realities of the workplace? While this paper includes a theoretical model of professional socialization, the focus is on the narrative model, which is the lived experience of physiotherapists in the context of practice in the constantly changing healthcare workplace through globalisation and economic rationalization.


1987 ◽  
Vol 51 (12) ◽  
pp. 697-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Gerbert ◽  
V Badner ◽  
B Maguire ◽  
J Martinoff ◽  
S Wycoff ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew R. Johnson ◽  
Jennifer Peacock
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2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kizzy M. Parks ◽  
Kristin Charles

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Debbie MacLellan ◽  
Jacqui Gingras ◽  
Daphne Lordly ◽  
Jennifer Brady

This paper explores beginning dietetic practitioners’ perspectives on the process of becoming dietetics professionals through the use of vignettes to illuminate the complex process of professional socialization.  Embedded in these vignettes are three themes related to the socialization process that occurs in the early years of dietetic practice: congruence, resilience, and relationships.  Our findings indicate that new dietitians struggle to develop their dietitian identity.  They feel unprepared for the relational and practice realities of the workplace and find the transition from dietetic intern to dietitian challenging.  They seek many ways to cope including seeking support from others and planning for the future but some consider leaving the profession.  It is important to understand the professional socialization and identity formation processes that occur during the early years of practice to ensure that dietitians feel prepared and supported as they begin their careers.


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