Background Staff shortages limit access to health services. The bidirectional benefits of
allied health clinical placements are understood in the domains of student learning, health …

Background Little is known about the social learning of students within community-based
clinical placements and ways in which it can be supported. In an allied health service …

Allied health services play a critical role in preventing and managing the disabling
consequences of disease and injury, 1 which occur at disproportionately higher rates in …

In today's environment, health students need to be prepared for an ever changing workplace
and workforce. They need to understand what demonstrates good quality work and how to …

Increasing chronic disease rates in regional Australian communities necessitates innovative
models of healthcare. We evaluated the efficacy of an interprofessional chronic disease …

Background: Children growing up in Australian rural communities have more
communication impairments than their urban counterparts. Communication impairments, if …

This article reports on a community-based service-learning program that aligned
occupational therapy and speech pathology student learning with service provision in order …

This preliminary national study is the first of its kind to investigate how service learning
placements are implemented in real world settings in rural Australia and what factors enable …

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has necessitated the rapid transition of many face-to-
face health services to alternate modes of service delivery. The objective of this study was to …

Service learning is not a new concept in Australia, although it could be better harnessed in
rural Australian health student placements for the betterment of rural communities, students …