University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

The following evaluation research questions will be explored:
1. Which faculty, environment, and curriculum satisfaction-related factors are associated with SFL?
2. Which factors affect student satisfaction in SFL?
3. What factors influence student perceptions of SFL?
4. What are the teaching families' perceptions of the SFL process?

This project will explore the perceptions of Allied Health Graduate Students, teaching families, and faculty that have been involved in the solution-focused learning (SFL) program. There is a lack of interdisciplinary allied health care educational programs.. We believe this is due in part to the lack of information available on the topic. This theory is supported by extant literature related to interdisciplinary allied health training.
The Interdisciplinary Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Project (LEND) is supported by a grant form the U.S. Maternal and Child Health Bureau. The LEND program provides an interdisciplinary clinical and didactic experience with an emphasis in leadership education. Project faculty assist LEND trainees in attaining high levels of clinical competence as well as developing leadership attributes including a focus on population needing service, systems of care, community-based services, program administration, public policy, and research. There are a total of eleven disciplines represented in the LEND program: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, audiology, health administration, psychology, dental, dietetics, medicine, nursing and social work.