Are all rural placements created equal? A national study of placement experiences among multidisciplinary health students.
Objective: Members of the National Rural Health Student Network have expressed concerns that the quality and accessibility of rural placements might vary between health degrees. This study compared a range of placement factors between health student disciplines. Design: Cross‐sectional survey. Setti...
| Published in: | Australian Journal of Rural Health Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 118 - 125 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=135990797&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 135990797 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 10385282 FQO jtl: Australian Journal of Rural Health issn: 10385282 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Apr2019 vid: 27 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 135990797 135990797 135990797 10.1111/ajr.12487 135990797 ppf: 118 ppct: 7 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Are all rural placements created equal? A national study of placement experiences among multidisciplinary health students. aug: au: Mortimer, Joshua Verma, Ankur Reimann, Carolyn Brown, Ashley Woolley, Torres affil: National Rural Health Student Network, Mascot New South Wales, Australia sug: subj: Student Placement Psychosocial Factors Students, Health Occupations Psychosocial Factors Student Experiences Rural Areas Student Assistance Programs Evaluation Human Australia Male Female Adolescence Adult Surveys Cross Sectional Studies Bivariate Statistics Support, Psychosocial Student Orientation Financial Support Data Analysis Software Chi Square Test T-Tests Multiple Logistic Regression Descriptive Statistics Intention Multivariate Analysis Psychological Well-Being Adolescent: 13-18 years Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Objective: Members of the National Rural Health Student Network have expressed concerns that the quality and accessibility of rural placements might vary between health degrees. This study compared a range of placement factors between health student disciplines. Design: Cross‐sectional survey. Setting: An online survey tool was distributed in 2016 by the National Rural Health Student Network and its Rural Health Clubs to the National Rural Health Student Network's 10 218 members in all Australian states and territories. Participants: Responses were received from 897 health students (9% response rate). Participants were from the disciplines of medicine, dentistry, nursing, midwifery or an allied health degree. Main outcome measures: Bivariate analysis between medical and non‐medical students relating to the support received for rural placements: support provided to help students coordinate their placement; assistance with financial costs; mental health support; social support; and student orientation regarding both the placement's health service and community. Result: Compared with medical students, non‐medical students were more likely to have coordinated the majority of their placement themselves, but were less likely to have had control over their placement location or to have received financial support, mental health support, social support, a health service orientation or a community orientation. Conclusion: Among National Rural Health Student Network members, those studying health degrees other than medicine had significantly less rural placement support in all examined domains when compared with medical students. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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