None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
No research data supports decisions regarding the impact of increasing supervisor to student ratios on learner performance, to increase system capacity (Lekkas L, et al 2007, Ladyshewsky,1995). Our study will determine the best model of education to be utilised when clinical educators are supervising multiple students. This will then allow for studies to effectively evaluate the typical one-to-one clinical educator to student teaching ratio with higher student to educator, supplying essential data with which to evaluate the potential for capacity growth associated with a shift in the design of clinical educator and student models.
Interventions
Peer-assisted Learning:
Students will complete learning activities in pairs, including assessment and management of patients, reflective processes and supervised sessions.
Learning will take place in the clinical environment, 31 hours per week for 5 weeks.
Each student will undertake 1 intervention for 5 weeks then cross over to the alternate intervention for another 5 weeks. There will be a 3 day washout period between the two interventions.
Sponsors
Southern Health
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Crossover
Primary purpose
Educational / counselling / training
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 99 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
year 3 Monash University undergraduate physiotherapy students on placement at Southern Health, and their clinical educators
Exclusion criteria
students from other year levels students allocated to other clinical placement networks students who do not consent
Outcome results
None listed