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Rethinking clinical placements: A response to changing healthcare demands
Focus on Health Professional Education, Vol.26(1), pp.60-77
2025
Abstract
Clinical placements allow students the opportunity to apply theoretical knowledge and become workforce ready. Demand for clinical placements from education providers already exceeds supply. As healthcare workforce shortages continue, the need for increasing numbers of graduates will generate additional strain, and policymakers targeting health workforce shortages must be cognisant of their impact on the education and health sectors. At the same time, clinical placements must be fit for purpose and meet the learning needs of students. The diverse array of placement models has been compounded by rapid developments during the COVID-19 pandemic. Challenges and considerations include labour intensity, need for capacity building, importance of engagement at institutional and local supervisor levels, cost (including that to students), planetary impact, availability and equity. The future of high-quality clinical placements needs to be secured and built on a sustainable framework to support future clinical placement capacity.
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- Title
- Rethinking clinical placements: A response to changing healthcare demands
- Authors
- Joy Rudland - University of OtagoJulie Ash - The University of AdelaideLuke Barclay - University of CanberraJacqueline Bloomfield - The University of SydneyFiona Bogossian - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of HealthKaylenne Byrne - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - NursingMary Butler - University of South AustraliaAnna Chur-Hansen - The University of AdelaideScott Clark - The University of AdelaideAmanda Edgar - Deakin UniversityPenelope Fotheringham - University of Newcastle AustraliaRoma Forbes - The University of QueenslandElyce Green - Charles Sturt UniversityNavine Haworth - ACC-AURichard Hays - James Cook UniversityBelinda Judd - The University of SydneyPriya Martin - The University of QueenslandRachel Macdiarmid - Auckland University of TechnologyClare McNally - The University of MelbourneRichard McGee - University of Newcastle AustraliaLiz McNeill - Flinders UniversityJudith Needham - Griffith UniversityPhillippa Poole - University of AucklandJacqueline Raymond - The University of SydneyMelissa Ridd - Flinders UniversityAdrian Schoo - Flinders UniversityMichael Tran - UNSW SydneyDebra Virtue - The University of MelbourneTim Wilkinson - University of OtagoJohn Wright - Flinders UniversityDanielle Ní Chróinín - UNSW Sydney
- Publication details
- Focus on Health Professional Education, Vol.26(1), pp.60-77
- Publisher
- ANZAHPE
- Date published
- 2025
- DOI
- 10.11157/fohpe-vol26iss1id782
- ISSN
- 2204-7662; 1442-1100
- Copyright note
- Copyright (c) 2025 Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-Professional Journal. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health; School of Health - Nursing
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991119444902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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