Allied Health Professions Accreditation Standards for Work Integrated Learning: A Document Analysis.

ABSTRACT: A key role of allied health (AH) professional regulatory and professional bodies is to ensure that AH education programs provide work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities for students. The requirements are outlined via the respective profession's educational accreditation standards. Although a significant component of the AH professional degrees, researchers have not explored how standards specific to WIL are developed, nor how WIL might be conceptualised through the standards. This study explored how WIL is conceptualised through comparing the WIL education standards across Australian AH professions. Using a non-experimental explanatory mixed-methods research design, a document analysis of Australian education program accreditation standards (and associated documents) for 15 AH profess

SUBMITTER: Penman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10418477 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature