They are interested in a curriculum which is practical, immediately useful imparting the minimum competencies that are needed for practice. Control is exercised through professional committees, visitations and decisions against which there is no inclination to appeal. But good curriculum research can get us and our policy advisers thinking about them. Examination results tell a bit of the story. The theory of socialisation is a platform for asking about what happens to students.
Socialisation is the preparation of individuals for roles in a culture.
Graduates have roles in the culture of work and as citizens in the community. Socialisation is the acquisition of the skills, dispositions and values necessary for effective role performance in those cultures. Professional socialisation for example sees the graduate as a very different human being from the recruit who entered the faculty four or six years earlier. The graduate has a considerable self-confidence which comes from assurance that he or she has mastered a considerable body of esoteric knowledge. The graduate also has values which will shape responses critical decisions and ethical conflicts in practice.