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Increasing graduate clinician confidence
What is it about?
We were interested in learning about the effect that completing a semester of graduate school has on speech-language pathology students' perceptions of their self-efficacy (confidence) for completing a variety of clinical tasks. We used a survey that the students completed at the beginning and end of the semester. We found that they generalized what they learned in class and clinic beyond the content and clients they experienced to all aspects of speech-language pathology.
Why is it important?
Self-efficacy is an important aspect of effective clinical performance. Clinical and classroom faculty in speech-language pathology programs need to work with their graduate students in a way that develops self-efficacy that is matched with clinical competence.