Multidiscipline Multi technologies

How can technology support allied health students from multiple disciplines increase their access to clinical training?

Abstract

This paper describes the current progress of a federally funded project that is attempting to provide a multidisciplinary approach to increasing the clinical training capacity of undergraduate health students. Students from five disciplines: physiotherapy; podiatry; psychology; medicine and nursing from the one Australian multi-campus university are being encouraged to undertake a small component of their clinical placement in local hospital settings that are supported by the project and state government health networks. Using an exploratory case study approach this paper reports on the early stages of the project and highlights some of the issues in dealing with the myriad of stakeholders and how various technologies are being used to connect with students and provide supports and spaces to reflect.