"I loved it, absolutely loved it" a qualitative study exploring what student podiatrists learn volunteering as part of an interprofessional medical team at a marathon.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Final year podiatry students volunteer annually as part of the wider interprofessional medical team at both the Brighton and London Marathon race events, supervised by qualified podiatrists, allied health professionals and physicians. Volunteering has been reported to be a positive experience for all participants and a way of developing a range of professional, transferable, and where appropriate, clinical skills. We sought to explore the lived experience of 25 students who volunteered at one of these events and aimed to: i) examine the experiential learning reported by students while volunteering in a dynamic and demanding clinical field environment; ii) determine whether there were elements of learning that could be translated to the traditional teaching environment in

SUBMITTER: Otter S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9939373 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature