Title Educating health professionals : becoming a university teacher / edited by Stephen Loftus, the Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia, Tania Gerzina, Faculty of Dentistry, the University of Sydney, Australia, Joy Higgs, the Education For Practice Institute, Charles Sturt University, Australia, Megan Smith, Faculty of Science, Charles Sturt University, Australia and Elaine Duffy, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Australia

Published Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) Series Practice, Education, Work and Society ; v. 8 Practice, education, work and society ; v. 8. Contents Introduction. Being a Health Professional Educator -- Health Professionals Becoming University Teachers -- Being a University Teacher -- The Context of Health Professional Education Today -- Health Professional Education Programs -- Looking after Yourself -- Community and Workplace Expectations of Graduates in the Health Professions -- Professional Socialisation -- Education in the Emerging Professions -- Providing Clinical Education -- Teaching and Research. Thinking about Curriculum -- Standards in Health Professional Education -- The Student Experience -- The Development of Healthcare Researchers -- Indigenous Issues in Health Professional Education -- Introducing Interprofessional Education -- Case Studies. Making the Most of Workplace Learning -- Workplace Learning in Rural and Remote Areas -- Internationalisation and Health Professional Education -- Assessment in Health Professional Education -- Learning Practical Skills -- Teaching Clinical Reasoning -- Understanding the Place of Assessment Standards -- Indigenous Issues -- A Practical Example -- Professional Development for Medical Educators -- Future Directions. Major Current Themes in Health Professional Education -- Health Professional Education in the Future Summary This book is for health professionals who are becoming involved in the education of people entering their professions. It introduces many of the challenges that educators must engage with in the twenty-first century; challenges that will preoccupy our attention for many years to come. The world of professional practice in healthcare is changing and the education we provide to prepare people for that practice is also changing. How do we prepare professional practitioners for this changing world? How do we prepare them for the changes that are yet to come? What challenges and changes do they need to be aware of? How do we prepare educators both academics and workplace educators for these challenges? This volume opens up and articulates the issues we face in preparing people to enter the contemporary world of healthcare. Experienced educators should also find much of interest in these pages. Practice-based education provides an overarching framework for consideration of the issues involved. There are five sections in the book: - Section 1: Introduction - Section 2: Health Professional Education in Context - Section 3: Teaching and Research - Section 4: Case Studies - Section 5: Future Directions Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 9, 2013) Subject Medicine -- Study and teaching Medical teaching personnel -- Vocational guidance Education HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism. HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference. MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine. MEDICAL -- Atlases. MEDICAL -- Essays. MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice. MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine. MEDICAL -- Osteopathy. Medicine -- Study and teaching Form Electronic book Author Loftus, Stephen, editor ISBN 9789462093539 9462093539 9462093512 9789462093515 9462093520 9789462093522

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