'The early exposure is really helpful' : students' views of participating in communication skills screening

Robyn Johnson, Alison Purcell, Emma Power, Steven Cumming

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Abstract

Students commence university with many hopes and dreams for their future and for most, these are realised. Health professional students must succeed in both their academic and clinical experiences. Excellent communication with their patients and colleagues on placement is necessary and particularly so for speech pathology students. This qualitative, descriptive study investigates how first- and final-year students view the screening of their communication skills in which they participate. The focus groups took place within the speech pathology department of a major Australian metropolitan university. Data were transcribed and analysed thematically. Three main themes arose: professional development, students’ cognitive and emotional responses, and the organisation of the screener. Both groups of students felt the screener was both an important part of their professional development and a way of identifying and supporting speech pathology students with communication difficulties. They valued the student-led nature of the process. Implications for the value of using a student-led communication screener to identify students with weaker communication skills early in their program and for the support of such students are discussed.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)18-28
Number of pages11
JournalInternational Journal of Practice-Based Learning in Health and Social Care
Volume9
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - 2021

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© 2021 Robyn Johnson, Alison Purcell, Emma Power & Steven Cumming. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Attribution-Non-Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is unaltered.

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