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The core purpose of health professional education is to prepare practitioners who can cope with the many demands of working in a range of health settings, not only as these settings exist today but also as they might exist tomorrow. This can include traditional clinical roles in metropolitan and regional hospitals, suburban and rural clinics, specialist centres and the many varieties of community care.
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Loftus, S., Gerzina, T. (2013). Being a Health Professional Educator. In: Loftus, S., Gerzina, T., Higgs, J., Smith, M., Duffy, E. (eds) Educating Health Professionals. Practice, Education, Work and Society. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-353-9_1
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