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- Title
Increasing Radiation Therapy Graduates' Employability Through Service Learning.
- Authors
Trad, Megan
- Abstract
Background As the radiation therapist job market tightens, it is more important than ever to ensure that program graduates are highly employable upon graduation and have qualities and skills that set them apart from other applicants. Service learning is a teaching strategy that incorporates community service projects into the course curriculum, allowing students to learn classroom objectives while simultaneously gaining work experience. Objective To determine whether the implementation of a service learning project would increase the employability of new radiation therapy graduates, who often have little previous health care experience aside from the educational program's clinical component. Methods This study investigated whether human resource professionals in the health care field would consider and value community service hours when determining which candidates to invite for interviews and ultimately to hire. A survey was administered to determine what value, if any, human resource professionals place on community service when evaluating potential employees. Results The survey responses indicated that human resource professionals review community service hours and these hours potentially have a positive impact on students' employability. Conclusion Students who have participated in service learning projects as part of their radiation therapy curriculumcould stand out among other applicants. Future research should be conducted to further determine whether the implementation of service learning projects in radiologic science curricula increases students' employability.
- Subjects
TEXAS; ALLIED health personnel; ANALYSIS of variance; COMMUNICATIVE competence; GROUP decision making; EMPLOYEE selection; EMPLOYEES; EMPLOYMENT interviewing; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH occupations students; HOSPITALS; JOB descriptions; ALLIED health education; RADIOLOGIC technologists; RADIOTHERAPY; SCALE analysis (Psychology); SERVICE learning; SURVEYS; VOLUNTEERS; GRADUATES; CLASSROOM research
- Publication
Radiation Therapist, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
1084-1911
- Publication type
Article