Department of Nursing and Allied Health, Swinburne University, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.
Sydney School of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Physiother Res Int. 2023 Jan;28(1):e1977. doi: 10.1002/pri.1977. Epub 2022 Nov 15.
Understanding the experiences of learners-and future graduates-is integral to their professional development and to the development of the profession. This paper adds to understanding of physiotherapy student experiences by exploring the ways students and recent graduates approach, learn about, connect with and form a relationship with their chosen profession of physiotherapy.
Heuristic inquiry, a form of phenomenology, was used. Thirteen participants (11 students and 2 new graduates) were interviewed.
The findings are presented as four portraits: passenger, tourist, resident and citizen. These represent four particular and prominent ways that the participants connected with specific situations and/or to the profession as a whole, the sense they made of those situations (or the broader profession) and the identity formed.
The portraits help educators to think about how students are navigating the process of becoming a physiotherapist and might act as a tool to help foster students' professional development. Educators who understand students' motivations and struggles are better prepared to help students to see themselves and the profession in sophisticated ways.
了解学习者——未来毕业生的体验，是他们专业发展和专业发展不可或缺的一部分。本文通过探索学生和最近毕业的学生接近、了解、与他们选择的物理治疗专业建立联系以及形成关系的方式，增加了对物理治疗学生体验的理解。
采用启发式探究，即现象学的一种形式。对 13 名参与者（11 名学生和 2 名新毕业生）进行了访谈。
研究结果呈现为四个画像：乘客、游客、居民和公民。这代表了参与者与特定情况或整个专业建立联系的四种特殊且突出的方式，他们对这些情况（或更广泛的专业）的看法以及形成的身份。
这些画像有助于教育工作者思考学生如何在成为物理治疗师的过程中进行导航，并且可以作为一种工具来帮助促进学生的专业发展。了解学生动机和困难的教育工作者能够更好地帮助学生以复杂的方式看待自己和专业。
