Navigating the Complexities of Health Professions Education for Millennial and Generation Z Learners
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- 2024
Summary
The evolving landscape of healthcare tasks health professions educators with preparing the next generation of providers to be adaptable, responsive, and self-directed to ensure that they are prepared for entry into practice. The complexity of developing, implementing, and assessing health professions education is further compounded when educators consider the expectations of their learners and strive to integrate their needs and expectations into the learning environment. As a result of the varying academic requirements of health professions disciplines, educators may be faced with teaching students spanning multiple generations, to primarily include Millennial and Generation Z learners. Educators must be prepared to anticipate, identify, and respond to differing generational expectations to ensure that health professions students are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed for practice.
This book examines generational differences between Millennial and Generation Z learners to inform health professions educators of those generational characteristics and expectations. The book also illustrates how higher education has evolved and changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impending demographic cliff, how educators can adapt the varying learning environments (classroom, clinical, and experiential) present within health professions education, and provide best practices to consider when developing, implementing and revising learning opportunities.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2024
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-66691-789-5
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-6669-1790-1
- Publisher
- Lexington, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 222
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Preface No access
- Overview of Generational Theory and the Millennial Generation No access Pages 1 - 14
- Generation Z Enters Higher Education and How They Compare to Millennials No access Pages 15 - 32
- Recent Trends Impacting Higher Education across Generations No access Pages 33 - 52
- Factors That Impact Health Professions Education No access Pages 53 - 64
- Considerations for Teaching Millennials and Gen Zs in the Classroom No access Pages 65 - 80
- Assessing Competency-Based Education and Navigating Clinical/Lab Skills with Millennial No access Pages 81 - 104
- Establishing Connection within Co-Curricular Experiences and the Role of Student Affairs No access Pages 105 - 118
- Creating a Team within Interprofessional Education with Multigenerational Student Populations No access Pages 119 - 136
- Cultivating Professionalism and Professional Identity Formation through Experiential Learning No access Pages 137 - 156
- Generational Differences in the Health Professions Workforce No access Pages 157 - 170
- Best Practices for Navigating the Generational Divides No access Pages 171 - 182
- Conclusion No access Pages 183 - 184
- References No access Pages 185 - 214
- Index No access Pages 215 - 220
- About the Authors No access Pages 221 - 222





