Developing professional competence in an unfamiliar setting: Practice learning in Zambia.
Higher education needs to provide students with competencies to meet the health and social needs of a society characterised by increased globalisation and diversity. Occupational therapy students from Norway expressed that learning experiences outside their comfort zone within Zambian placements, ha...
| Publicado en: | Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 30; no. 7; pp. 1122 - 1135 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2023
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