In 1989, a report by cultural charity the Gulbenkian Foundation criticised the haphazard way directors entered the profession, highlighting a prevailing culture of amateurism.
The underlying mechanism accords with the notion that increasing wages might attract the 'wrong sort' of people into the profession and highlights an (in efficiency wage mechanism, particular to vocations, which makes wages sticky up wards.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching's studies on Preparation for the Professions, has highlighted the importance of examining how faculty's pedagogical practices influence the formation of those entering the field.
As an occupational therapy student, I feel that defining our profession and highlighting exactly what we do is important.
Last night's Four Corners again laid bare the fraught issue of bullying and harassment in medicine, demonstrating the service that surgeon Gabrielle McMullin did to the profession by highlighting it earlier this year.
Walsall council has launched a project that will see the council regularly tweet about the role of social workers and the issues they face on a day to day basis, in an effort to "dispel myths" about the profession and highlight good work.
The program is intended "to elevate the prestige" of the profession and highlight the importance of science and math in the schools, says Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
The findings suggest that humanitarian aid trainees exhibit known risk and resilience factors before they enter the profession, whilst highlighting practice expectations and personal support perceptions that are amenable to positive change through training.
Surgeons identified that training, diagnostic ability and treatment skills were highly variable within the chiropractic profession, and highlighted that unethical behaviors by some affected perceptions of the profession as a whole.
Choy told the Los Angeles Times that Stanford's CDC was trying to use money from the partnership program to highlight other professions.
