Healthcare graduates for the 21st century; Knowledge and attitudes relating to alcohol and brief interventions.
Date
2009-11-27
Citation
Gill, Jan and Nicol, Maggie and Gibson, Caroline and O'May, Fiona (2009)
Healthcare graduates for the 21st century; Knowledge and attitudes
relating to alcohol and brief interventions. In: Learning & Teaching Conference, 27th November 2009, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
Abstract
Final year students studying a variety of healthcare
courses (involving inter-professional education), at six
Scottish universities completed a questionnaire (spring
2009). While changes in current health policy endorse
graduate attributes promoting shared responsibility, an
overlapping of roles, analysis of findings revealed
differences between the professions in terms of level of
understanding of health guidelines, acceptance of role
and perceived confidence in personal knowledge
relating to alcohol misuse. Two professions were
predominantly viewed as key to this area of practice
only by their own students (OT and pharmacy) while
three (speech and language, radiography, dietetics)
doubted the importance of their role.