A methodology to facilitate making health professional learners visible as health professional contributors in clinical placements

Abstract

Clinical workplace learning literature tends to focus on the benefits for students and the burdens for health services rather than on mutual benefits of clinical placements. With competition for student placements and changing funding models, there is a need for research designs that can provide evidence of the benefits of clinical placements for health services in addition to the benefits for students’ learning. Through a series of studies investigating the bi-directional benefits of health professional students’ clinical placements, the authors developed and trialled the Clinical Placement Research Framework, a methodology informed conceptually by communities of practice and related theori..