PURPOSE:
The aim of this paper is to investigate the supervisor (professor) profile of the probation in Speech-Language Pathology and how is his practice while the monitoring of the trainees (students).
METHODS:
It treated of a descriptive cross-sectional study based on the application of a questionnaire in 21 supervisors of the probation in a Course of Speech-Language Pathology at a public university in State of Alagoas, Brazil.
RESULTS:
The studied group shows 95.24% of women, predominantly aged between 31 and 40 years. Most is Master, however, few have specific training for teaching in health, always performing their activities mainly with medium complexity and outside the interdisciplinary context.
CONCLUSION:
The results point to the need to the specific training focused on teaching as well as to the redirection of training for the Primary Care and the Interdisciplinarity.
Speech-Language Pathology; Higher Education; Clinical Probation
