'Is there a Plan B?': clinical educators supporting underperforming students in practice settings

Teaching in Higher Education

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 531-544

  Bearman, Margaret ^a   Molloy, Elizabeth ^a   Ajjawi, Rola ^b   Keating, Jennifer ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clinical competence; clinical supervision; education; physiotherapy; remediation; underperformance; work based learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881669616     PISSN: 13562517     EISSN: 14701294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2012.752732     Document Type: Article

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