In this phase, designers and facilitators work together to make sense of the design of the program and also explore how facilitators come to understand and use different features of the professional development program.
[ 44] Work experience, which provides insight into features of the professional job, was reported as an important influence for 87% of students.
In considering the wider context of health and health services, it appears that elements of three factors, which together describe 50% of the underlying motivation, are under particular challenge: features of the professional job, healthcare-people, and academic-scientific factors.
Whereas 'money' was highlighted as the prime factor in the US, followed by 'people', and then various features of the professional job, Danish students showed some variance over time with the most recent study in 1994 identifying 'people', followed by 'convenience/esteem' and 'work conditions' as the main factors.
Looking to the future, it is clear that the features of the professional role of dentists and their day-to-day job are likely to change significantly to the extent that it will be rather different to that encountered by current cohorts on work experience.
[ 24, 26- 28, 30, 64, 65] Qualitative research supported the view that features of the professional job were important concluding that the underlying motivation for dentistry was the desire for a 'professionally contained career' in healthcare, attracted by aspects of the job which they perceive offer security, flexibility and quality of life [ 66].
In the former, the reputation of the profession was very high, the features of this professional practice as well as the knowledge and skills necessary to perform as a GP appearing to be held in high esteem by both students and educators.
You can, however, manually time your work with the stopwatch feature of the professional version.
Consideration of the 'features of the professional job' and their influence on 'quality of life' appears to have been central to VDPs choice of dentistry.
The motivation for choosing a career in dentistry has been reported, highlighting students' choice of dentistry as a 'contained professional career in healthcare' [ 2], together with the importance of a range of factors, including 'features of the professional job' and 'healthcare/people' [ 3].
Features of the 'professional job', followed by 'healthcare and people' were the most important underlying factors influencing choice of career.
