Further, a national survey of medical and non-medical students who were members of the National Rural Health Student Network (n = 897) found that 26.5% of respondents chose to avoid a rural placement due to a lack of financial support [31]. Aside from some student disciplines (i.e....
Allied health and nursing students at metropolitan campuses are open to working rurally after undertaking a rural or regional placement, a University of Melbourne study has found. More than 4,000 students were surveyed following placements in north and north-eastern Victoria, Ballarat and the Grampia...
student placementsTo: (1) assess whether rural clinical placements influence change in intention to practice rurally for nursing and allied health students, (2) to assess whether residential origin (metropolitan or rural) or university location (metropolitan or non‐metropolitan) influence this change,...
to expand this discussion to include the fundingmechanisms that underpin the financial sustainability ofsuch clinics.Student clinics are generally more costly, from a universityperspective, compared with placements in public health ser-vices. 2 Forbes et al. report using casually employed clinicaleducators...
rural allied healthstudent supervisionwork-integrated learningThere is a need to maximise rural clinical fieldwork placement to build health workforce capacity. This study investigated allied health professionals' (AHPs) experience of supervising students as part of work-integrated learning in public and ...
Our initial search of the literature found one scoping review protocol that aimed to examine the study designs and outcomes of allied health and nursing student and graduate tracking studies. That protocol did not specify a focus on the measurement of rural practice outcome measures [21]. Further...