Educating health practitioners: what works?

This report provides a summary of Ako Aotearoa-funded projects that explore approaches to educating and assessing health practitioners [in New Zealand]. These projects describe what educators and researchers have done to support the learning of health and allied health professionals, and the extent to which these learning initiatives have worked. As an exploration of learning, teaching and assessing across an entire industry, this report's focus is inherently interdisciplinary. Its goals are to identify common educational themes across different parts of the health workforce. This report...  [+] Show more

This report provides a summary of Ako Aotearoa-funded projects that explore approaches to educating and assessing health practitioners [in New Zealand]. These projects describe what educators and researchers have done to support the learning of health and allied health professionals, and the extent to which these learning initiatives have worked. As an exploration of learning, teaching and assessing across an entire industry, this report's focus is inherently interdisciplinary. Its goals are to identify common educational themes across different parts of the health workforce.

This report is based on the findings of 27 projects funded by Ako Aotearoa [National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence] between 2009 and 2015. These projects include research, evaluations and good practice publications. The projects took place in sites of formal learning (in these cases universities and polytechnics), in sites of ongoing learning (hospitals, home-based care, and clinical premises), and via distance and workshop learning. The collection of projects described in this report reflects the diversity of sub-sectors and settings in the health sector; it describes what works for whom, the theories that underpin the teaching and learning situations, and the pedagogies themselves.

Excerpt from publication.