Transforming Practice through Clinical Education, Professional Supervision and Mentoring

Transforming Practice through Clinical Education, Professional Supervision and Mentoring provides the reader with an informed view of the three topics of clinical education, professional supervision and mentoring, clarifying the differences and similarities between the three topics across a broad range of health science professions.

The text provides a much-needed exploration of these domains at a time when their value in the health professions is increasingly appreciated. The book is written by experts in the field, who have not only a rich academic and research background, but also extensive practical and interdisciplinary experience.

The book is unique in drawing together for the first time the fields of clinical education, professional supervision and mentoring within one text. The content is enhanced by the authors’ interdisciplinary experiences and is written with the busy, practice-focused clinician in mind.

The authors represent a diversity of health professional practice including:
• Dietetics
• Medical education
• Occupational therapy
• Pharmacy
• Physiotherapy
• Prosthetics and orthotics
• Podiatry
• Radiography
• Speech pathology.

Such diversity is further enhanced by the text’s international focus, with authors writing from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the USA. The resulting text provides a solid theoretical and evidence based multidisciplinary exploration of clinical education, professional supervision and mentoring. It is presented in a style which is readily accessible for the time-short health practitioner or academic.