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The Benefits of Longitudinal Relationships With Patients for Developing Health Professionals

The Longitudinal Student-Patient Relationship

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Clinical placements are widely acknowledged as essential to the holistic development of health professionals, with the ability to engage in professional practise in patient-centred healthcare models providing one example of this holistic development. These placement experiences have historically involved a series of short-term rotations between hospital-based disciplines, continuous with or interspersed between short blocks of theoretical learning.

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Hudson, J.N., Weston, K.M. (2014). The Benefits of Longitudinal Relationships With Patients for Developing Health Professionals. In: Higgs, J., Croker, A., Tasker, D., Hummell, J., Patton, N. (eds) Health Practice Relationships. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-788-9_25

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