Augmenting Health and Social Care Students’ Clinical Learning Experiences

This edited volume offers a range of insights about, practices of and findings associated with enrichening health and social care students’ learning by their engagement in educational processes during and after the completion of their practicum experiences in health and social care settings. That is, using post-practicum intervention to augment and enrich those learning experiences. The collected contributions here draw on the processes of trialing and evaluating educational processes that aimed to enrich those practicum experiences for purposes of improving students’ understandings, abilities to address patients’ needs, and health and social care related dispositions. These processes and findings from these processes across medical, nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, pharmacy, exercise physiology, dietetic and speech pathology education speak directly to educators in both clinical and educational settings in the health and social care sectors. These messages, which arise from educators and clinicians enacting and evaluating these interventions, offer practical suggestions as well as conceptual advances. The reach of the accounts of processes, findings and evaluations is not restricted to this sector alone, however. The lessons provided through this edited volume are intended to inform how post-practicum interventions might be enacted across a range of occupational fields. 

• Post-practicum experiences
• Post-practicum interventions
• Clinical practicum
• Medical education
• Health care students
• Social care students
• Clinical reasoning
• Student learning
• Educational processes
• Practice-based learning
• Higher education
• Health professional education
• Social care education
• Workplace learning
• Work integrated learning

• Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Mt Gravatt, Australia

  Stephen Billett

• Nursing & Midwifery, Monash University, Clayton, Australia

  Jennifer Newton

• School of Medicine, Griffith University, Southport, Australia

  Gary Rogers

• Medical Education Unit, Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Australia

  Christy Noble

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