Clinical Education

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• Clinical Education
• Challenges and Strategies
• Dr. John H.V. Gilbert, Principal

Ottawa ACCN March 28th, 2004
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Challenges

• The Gilbert 6040 Rule
• The language of clinical education
• Too many students for too
• few places?
• What are the physical resources?

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Challenges

• The Geographic Problem
• Its where post-secondary programs
• are
• Its where the placements are
• The downsized workforce who
• remains to teach?
• What makes a practice educator?

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Challenges

• The aging teacher workforce
• Is it a lumpy system?
• Cost to students
• Travel
• Accommodation
• Living expenses
• Lack of scholarships

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Challenges

• Moving from 11 to X1
• student instructor ratios
• Team based learning
• The Interprofessional challenge

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Strategies

• Its about geography
• Urban
• Rural
• Remote
• Its all about mix
• Number
• Type

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Strategies

• Develop a coherent placement
• strategy across system and sector
• Education Practice Educators
• Recognize and honour community
• partners
• Share best practices

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Strategies

• Build practice (clinical) education
• as integral part of health delivery
• system
• Identify ALL possible sources of
• placement including non-traditional
• National planning agency under
• F/P/T

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Strategies

• National database of generic
• issues
• Federal funding of creative
• solutions
• HSPnet
• IRPbc

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www.health-sciences.ubc.ca
john.gilbert_at_ubc.ca