Exposing Learners to Practice: When Crisis Presents New Opportunities

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Author(s): Jennifer Wade Shewmaker (Abilene Christian University, USA), Lynette Austin (Abilene Christian University, USA)and M. Monica Garcia (Abilene Christian University, USA)
Copyright: 2022
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on Updating and Innovating Health Professions Education: Post-Pandemic Perspectives
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Channing R. Ford (Jacksonville State University, USA)and Kimberly B. Garza (Auburn University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7623-6.ch015

Keywords: Education / Instructional Design / Medical Education / Medical Information Science Reference

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Clinical education is the center of professional preparation in healthcare fields, linking theoretical knowledge with clinical practice in the minds and behaviors of student clinicians. Clinical education, supervised by educators who are licensed professionals, is essential in the process of creating new professionals. What does a professional training program do about clinical education when the world shuts down? This chapter addresses the context of a private, not for profit university's response to the COVID-19 public healthcare crisis in spring of 2019 and the process by which a graduate training program in speech-language pathology re-organized, and re-visioned, clinical education in that context. The process allowed an upper cohort of students to graduate successfully and on time, engaged a lower cohort of brand-new clinicians in meaningful clinical learning, and taught the program new lessons about what is important in designing clinical education.

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