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Professional Governance: Another New Concept?

About 40 years ago, Luther Christman, PhD, RN, FAAN, wrote about an autonomous nursing organization where nurses would be empowered to control their nursing practice. His idea was an early framework for shared governance. As a young doctoral student, I explored shared governance as a concept; I became increasingly frustrated trying to understand what it was. Many organizations adopted what they...

Implementation of Leadership and Service Learning in a First-Year Engineering Course Enhances Professional Skills*

Successful engineering students should possess competence in both technical and professional traits such as creativity and leadership. This paper investigates how an engineering service learning module with a focus on leadership can affect engineering students’ confidence level for technical and professional traits. This leadership module was offered as part of our first-year course that aims t...

Evaluation of the flipped classroom approach in a veterinary professional skills course

BACKGROUND The flipped classroom is an educational approach that has had much recent coverage in the literature. Relatively few studies, however, use objective assessment of student performance to measure the impact of the flipped classroom on learning. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the use of a flipped classroom approach within a medical education setting to the first two levels of...

Conclusion: Knowledge and Skills for Professional Practice

Most professionals beginning their careers in species and ecosystem conservation conceive of their future work in terms of hands-on tasks in the field (“doing something important in the real world”). Whether on the domestic or the international scene, typically the forester sees themselves laying out timber sales, the fisheries biologist looks forward to surveying streams, and the range special...

Teaching Professional Ethics: Fostering Some Overlooked Skills