Career technical education and skilled trades have been the subject of a social stigma that continues to make it a habit of mind that career technical education is inferior to a 4-year college education. This stigma is partially responsible for a shortage of skilled labor. This study aimed to explore how educators describe and understand the…

Stressors inherent to training and stemming from the learning environment are associated with high rates of burnout, depression, and mental health problems in health professions students (HPS). There is evidence that disadvantaged or stigmatized groups are particularly affected. These problems not only impact students after graduation but may also…

Introduction: Healthcare, early education, and domestic (HEED) fields refer to feminine-typed care-oriented workforce domains. HEED fields remain dominated by women, yet this disparity and its developmental antecedents are often overlooked. This study investigated factors associated with early adolescents' interest in HEED professions. Methods: US…

This book embarks on an ambitious journey to challenge existing paradigms and spark a radical shift in the way healthcare is perceived and delivered. Dive into a groundbreaking exploration of person-centred healthcare education, offering a multi-dimensional framework that redefines learning and practice in the healthcare landscape. This…

Occupational therapy literature contains little evidence of the added value of clinical doctorate education, the professional identity of a Doctor of Occupational Therapy, or distinctions between master's-prepared and doctorate-prepared occupational therapists. This study is intended to add to the literature base through the systematic and…

Brain dissection is typically an important part of teaching neuroscience in health professional programs. This results in the need to effectively remove brains, which is often performed in a gross anatomy laboratory in the same curriculum. The aim of this study was to determine the most effective method of brain removal based on the time required…

Many low-income working parents rely on subsidized child care. The Illinois Child Care Assistance Program supports qualifying families in their work or school attendance. Many of these families may be unable to afford market-rate child care. Examining parents' income and employment patterns can guide policymakers to optimally structure subsidized…

Insight into students' views and understandings of what occupational therapy (OT) practitioners do and what a career will be like can shed light into how the profession is socially perceived. Additionally, this knowledge can be useful for recruitment, retention, and curriculum design, especially for addressing misunderstandings and inaccurate…

In this paper, we propose a method for constructing an occupation-based socioeconomic index that can easily incorporate changes in occupational structure. The resulting index is the occupational percentile rank for a given cohort, based on contemporaneous information pertaining to educational composition and the number of workers at the occupation…

Since their introduction into Nigeria in the 1990s, biomedical engineering and technology have played a transformative role in the healthcare industry. This paper presents a perspective on the current landscape of biomedical engineering and technology in Nigeria, beginning with a historical overview and the development of academic and practical…

Teachers' school contexts play critical yet underappreciated roles in their development of instructional practice in individual classrooms. Sparked by insights from Akiko Hayashi's book "Teaching Expertise in Three Countries," this reflective piece explores the author's development of his craft across four distinctive educational…

Pathway programs provide early exposure to various health careers. Positive program outcomes have been conveyed from the student's perspective. Previous studies yet to demonstrate a focus on the experiences of high school teachers who instruct in pathway programs. The primary research question for this study is: How do high school teachers…

The labour market is changing. Twelve million people work in occupations that are projected to decline, putting them at higher risk of losing their jobs. This report provides recommendations for supporting more of these workers in to successfully transition into growing areas of the labour market. This is the first recommendations report to be…

Belonging has been explored in research in higher education with a focus on student engagement or performance and the impact of psychological aspects on individuals' learning. Few studies focused on underrepresented occupational therapy students' belonging. Our research aimed to explore the lived experience of occupational therapy students…

Reflective practice is a complex concept to adequately describe, communicate about and, ultimately, teach. Unrelieved tensions about the concept persist within the health professions education (HPE) literature owing to reflection's diverse theoretical history. Tensions extend from the most basic, e.g., what is reflection and what are its contents,…