Purpose
- Help prospective students develop a sense of agency to advance their professional opportunities as their career develops.
- Identify programmatic solutions to challenges related to mental health and wellbeing, financial literacy and sustainability, social issues, changes in expectations around how education is taught/received, climate change, etc.
- Help students prepare for the clinical experiences both before and during their clinical rotation.
- Help students learn how to study and prepare for exams with examples of time management strategies.
- Recommend ways to bring mentors in monthly/weekly to talk to students and provide information to shape their understanding of the real experiences after graduation.
- Explore concepts of 2-staged licensure (earn an income before you graduate) to help students learn how to pay down their loan by pursuing experiences that build knowledge while in school and pay back for it.
- Provide suggestions/resources for reducing burn-out. Identify ways to help them expand on their sense of altruism and professional development throughout the program.
- Develop strategies to ensure faculty are teaching with contemporary expertise both from a clinical context and educational pedagogy.
This task group has identified the need to survey students to satisfy many of the objectives set forth from their initial planning. The group plans to work with the ACAPT Data Advisory Committee which will result in roadmaps and resources from the survey results.