An evaluation of students' perceptions of a college-based programme that involves patients, carers and service users in physiotherapy education.
Background. There is little evidence of the integration of UK physiotherapy university education into clinical practice, and some students say that they are not adequately prepared for professional life. This was addressed by a college-based programme involving patients, carers and service users as...
| Publicado en: | Physiotherapy Research International Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 36 - 48 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2012
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