Adverse health events associated with clinical placement: A systematic review

Health discipline students face various direct and indirect types of risks and hazards during education in clinical placements

“…Findings were synthesised into six key risk domains: psychological risk, risk of abuse, physical risk, impact of supervision, barriers to reporting and barriers to competency. Using these six key risk domains, Graj et al 1 narratively report aggregate findings arising from the articles included in the review. The domains of risk are also briefly quantified, showing the number of articles that contained a specific risk(s) in the study.…”

“…Using the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology, Graj et al 1 completed an exploratory systematic review using scholarly databases targeting English-language literature (2013–2018) examining health discipline students, clinical placements and related occupational hazards or challenges. Along with search results obtained from the scholarly databases, hand-searching of reference lists and key author searches for publications that fitted the inclusion criteria of the review was also undertaken.…”

“…The review completed by Graj et al 1 sought to explore the risks and hazards encountered by health discipline students during clinical placements. Primary research completed in this domain has suggested that students commonly face various types of abuse, violence and other health-related occupational hazards during formal training 2.…”

“…Primary research completed in this domain has suggested that students commonly face various types of abuse, violence and other health-related occupational hazards during formal training 2. Graj et al 1 sought to synthesise the body of the literature in an effort to better elucidate the various risks faced by health discipline students during education.…”

Physiotherapy Student's Perceptions of the Ideal Clinical Educator

“…Some positive experiences have been associated with compatible personality traits, similar personal epistemologies (their beliefs about knowledge and source of knowledge) and a mutual reverence of both the educator and student roles (Delany and Bragge, 2009). Notwithstanding a large proportion of student satisfaction studies indicate that clinical education and supervision interactions are comparatively positive (Ramakrishnan and Bairapareddy, 2020), evidence exploring bullying within physiotherapy placements continue to gather impetus (Graj et al, 2019, Thomson et al, 2017. Common negative placement experiences identified by physiotherapy students were an aggressive teaching style, inconsistencies in attitude, unapproachable and assigning unrealistic extracurricular tasks causing burn out (Meyer et al, 2017).…”