Promoting careers in health care for urban youth: What students, parents and educators can teach us
[2023-04-17 07:13:38]
Focus group survey results have proven to be very useful to achieve research objectives of a comprehensive and empirical study program that encourages underrepresented students to pursue health care. We examined the emerging strategies, discussed how to define them as best practices and consider how to transform them into procedural elements to form MIM programs over the next few years. (table)
Participants in the focus group have many topics on strategies they believe are able to work with students and others who think they have failed for many years. They said that many historical plans and activities are 'one time' experiences. This includes an annual career day event, a special spokesperson, or a limited time period for after school activities. Participants pointed out that these activities are easily forgotten by students and have little effect on students. Some people say that they may be a good first step, but many people believe that follow-up is necessary to keep students interested and turn this interest into participation.
Therefore, many participants believe that the best approach is a comprehensive and long-term approach. This will be comprehensive as it involves a wide range of activities to attract more students, has elements including parents and teachers, and actively involves students. The basic element is to make students understand the reasons for health through experts, the Internet, and facts - face-to-face experience. In addition, topics such as parent / student seminars, provision of economic support, role-playing with students on how to conduct interviews at university, and ensuring guidance of students by medical professionals who can simulate them later It is.
These elements also have long-term quality for them and begin when students are in high school so that they can better prepare when graduating from high school. Successful courses will also pass through the university so students will not suddenly lose support and mentor in the process.
In addition, the participants said they needed to change the image of the health care department. Such changes include advertisements featuring celebrities, because high school students are considered to be affected, and in the educational medical community, minority students are treated as potential medical experts in the future. A good lifestyle offered by students
At school, health educators use health as an academic discipline and promote and implement coordinated school health programs such as health services, students, employees, and parents' health education, and the health educational institutions and school communities Promote partnership. At the district level, they develop educational methods and teaching materials, coordinate the planning, promote, evaluate, and write proposals for financing. Working on the college / university campus, the health educator is part of a team devoted to creating an environment where students have a right to make healthy choices and create a caring community. They will identify needs, defend and implement community organizations, teach the entire curriculum or individual courses, develop mass media campaigns, and train colleagues educators, counselors and / or advocates .
Professors at universities and universities educate students who are interested in public health careers and prepare for the situation in the real world. Continuously learn and teachers of health sciences combine research and education to teach patient care and connect these standards to individuals who are ready to participate in this growing workforce. Like many public health employers, studies in all aspects of the industry, including clinical trial providers, scientists, researchers, analysts, policy makers, economists, bioethics specialists, and managers Employers are employed. , Manager, information technology experts and skilled teachers. In every public health field
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