INTRODUCTION This article reports the evaluation of the motivation and experiences of preceptors of health professional students in the Spencer Gulf Rural Health School (SGRHS) in South Australia. The aims for this evaluation were to establish: (1) What factors influenced the professional's decision to precept students? (2) Did preceptors report having adequate skills and preparation for precep...

extensively around the world for the preservice and inservice training of medical and allied health students and professionals. In several instances, such professionals have demonstrated improved knowledge scores and performance in the workplace upon completing distance education programs, but overall, there are few evaluation studies of education programs, distance or otherwise, that use rigor...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES The communication of patient prognosis is an essential component of modern healthcare. Previous research has focussed on clinician-to-patient communication only, while the interaction between different professionals in a clinical setting remains relatively unexplored. The research reported here investigated how multidisciplinary clinicians (nursing, medicine and allied he...

M.N. Sarkies2,3; K.-A. Bowles3,7; E.H. Skinner4,8; D. Mitchell2,6; R. Haas3,7; M. Ho2; K. Salter2; K. May2; D. Markham2; L. O’Brien3,5; S. Plumb1; T.P. Haines3,7 1Melbourne Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 2Monash Health, Allied Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3Monash Health, Allied Health Research Unit, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; 4Monash University, Allied Hea...

BACKGROUND Advanced communication skills are vital for allied health professionals, yet students often have limited opportunities in which to develop them. The option of increasing clinical placement hours is unsustainable in a climate of constrained budgets, limited placement availability and increasing student numbers. Consequently, many educators are considering the potentials of alternative...

As the health care professionals of tomorrow, the students of today are the future of our profession and will shape both dentistry and dental education. To provide historical perspective on today's students, this article summarizes trends in the demographics of allied, predoctoral, and advanced dental students in the United States over the past seventy-five years and reviews efforts made to pro...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Patient-centeredness is a critical approach to rehabilitation in allied health professions and is an imperative component of evidence-based practice. However, it is unknown if patient-centeredness is valued by students enrolled in allied health. This study was aimed at determining preferences to patient-centeredness in pre-service speech and hearing students in the fie...