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- Novel practices in training soft-skills for future speech and language therapistsPublication . Cunha , Maria João; Araújo, André; Faria, Paula; Patrício, Brígida; Gonçalves, Maria João Moreira; Patrício, Brígida; Guerreiro Martins Araújo, Pedro AndréSpeech and Language Therapy (SLT), as most health professions, have been developing and adapting for better evidence based practice in order to provide better and more effective and efficient clinical services. However, a good therapist/clinician requires much more than instrumental. Intrapersonal and interpersonal competences are more than ever recognized as essential for a successful professional career and to provide high-quality clinical services. Soft-skills cover a wide set of people skills, social skills, and personal career attributes, and are currently valued by employers, team peers and clients. Recognizing the need to develop soft-skills during a SLT graduation, a practicum (clinical education) course was designed using modern learning methods. During three consecutive years fourth year students were trained in a soft-skills promoting environment. This work intends to evaluate the implementation of this practicum course in a SLT graduation, according with students’ perspective. A brief questionnaire was used to collect students’ opinion about the course. Fourteen answers were obtained in this preliminary study. Results revealed that students are globally satisfied with the course and identify a higher number of advantages (51) than of disadvantages (17). A wide set of soft skills were identified as resulting from the procedures and opportunities used in the course. Around 67% of the strategies experimented during the course were related with personal organization, self-regulation and emotional control. Concerning with perceive tools identified by students as useful for professional development as SLT, 50% were related with the practicum activities and 25% with intrapersonal competences. Globally, students were able to confirm that the procedures adopted in this practicum course promote soft-skills in a formal way. It became clear that soft-skills can be measurable, systematic, and teachable/promoted. Discussion on the importance of soft-skills in SLT training is provided.
- Reflective practices in speech and language therapy degreePublication . Gonçalves, Maria João; Faria, Mónica; Araújo, André G. M.; Faria, Paula Cristina; Pinto, Marta JoanaSpeech and language therapists are health professionals working with people with communication and swallowing-related problems. The scope of practice includes competences that go far beyond clinical and technical abilities. As in other fields, inter and intrapersonal competences are crucial to develop and establish quality health services and a well-succeeded career. Reflective practices are used to achieve a professional profile aligned with 21st century competences, with strong soft skills, and capacity to develop new competences during professional lifetime. This chapter presents the experience of a Portuguese health school where several tools and strategies have systematically been used for the last 15 years in a Speech and Language Therapy degree, as tutorials, portfolio, reflective reports, self- and peer assessments, simulations, and clinical practicum. The outcomes are relevant and may be inspiring for other allied health professions' education, including students, teachers, and clinical educators.
- The multiplicities of an ethics committee in higher educationPublication . Tavares, Diana; Cruz, Agostinho; Cabral, Ana Paula; Machado, Alberto; Sousa, Helena; Curado, Henrique; Faria, Isabel; Amorim, Manuela; Gonçalves, Maria João; Lopes, Paula Maria da Costa; Monteiro, Pedro R.In the academic context, the main activity of ethics committees is evidently to regulate and monitor any investigation carried out within the institution, if the object of study is a person or biological material. However, it is important to note that ethics committee activity does not end, and cannot end, in this sphere of action. These entities are fundamental in raising awareness of the academic community for the assumption and incorporation of certain principles and values in their practices and in those of their members. Those principles and values include professional secrecy, respect for integrity and privacy, principles that become even more relevant when they refer to vulnerable people, such as health users. In a constantly changing world, ethics committees must identify new challenges and anticipate, as far as possible, action strategies. Having an ethics committee in a higher educational institution provides opportunities to, in a timely manner, be aware of the state of the art in bioethics or have access to recent research in healthcare.