Educating Professionals: Practice Learning in Health and Social Care

How do health and social care professionals learn their trade?What can the professions learn from each other?This book offers a comprehensive and practical acccount of recent changes in practice teaching and learning -- looking at both the way in which it is organized and the way in which it is conceptualized. Using case-studies, the authors focus on the experiences of students' learning in practice settings: how this is organized, what methods are used to help students learn their trade and how their abilities are assessed.The book offers separate chapters on eight professions, all by authors well-established in writing about practice-based learning in their field, rather than class-based academic learning. They explore areas of similarity and difference in expertise and outlook between professions. An introductory chapter draws out the general concepts which translate between professions, including the idea of reflective practice, and a concluding chapter discusses interprofessional learning within practice settings.