Venne Vickie L, Coleman Darrell
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, 2000 Circle of Hope, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
J Genet Couns. 2010 Dec;19(6):554-69. doi: 10.1007/s10897-010-9319-8. Epub 2010 Sep 16.
They are the Millennials--Generation Y. Over the next few decades, they will be entering genetic counseling graduate training programs and the workforce. As a group, they are unlike previous youth generations in many ways, including the way they learn. Therefore, genetic counselors who teach and supervise need to understand the Millennials and explore new ways of teaching to ensure that the next cohort of genetic counselors has both skills and knowledge to represent our profession well. This paper will summarize the distinguishing traits of the Millennial generation as well as authentic learning and evolutionary scaffolding theories of learning that can enhance teaching and supervision. We will then use specific aspects of case preparation during clinical rotations to demonstrate how incorporating authentic learning theory into evolutionary scaffolding results in experiential evolutionary scaffolding, a method that potentially offers a more effective approach when teaching Millennials. We conclude with suggestions for future research.
他们是千禧一代——Y 世代。在接下来的几十年里，他们将进入遗传咨询研究生培训项目并步入职场。作为一个群体，他们在许多方面与之前的年轻一代不同，包括他们的学习方式。因此，从事教学和督导工作的遗传咨询师需要了解千禧一代，并探索新的教学方法，以确保下一代遗传咨询师具备出色代表我们这个职业的技能和知识。本文将总结千禧一代的显著特征，以及能够提升教学和督导效果的真实学习和进化支架式学习理论。然后，我们将利用临床轮转期间病例准备的具体方面，来展示如何将真实学习理论融入进化支架式学习，从而形成体验式进化支架式学习，这是一种在教授千禧一代时可能更有效的方法。我们最后提出了对未来研究的建议。
