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Making the Most of Workplace Learning

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Educating Health Professionals

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As an academic, you may have come to teaching directly from your profession, perhaps with experience as a clinical educator, or you may have arrived as an experienced academic but with no previous experience of workplace learning or possibly some previous experience of workplace learning in another course or at another university or campus.

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Simpson, M.D., Patton, N. (2013). Making the Most of Workplace Learning. 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_17

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