Clinical practicum, also known as clinical practice or clinical training, is regarded as a key factor in health professional education.Therefore, adequate and high-quality clinical education, which is typically implemented as mentoring or the supervision of healthcare students in clinical learning environments, is fundamental in terms of the provision of high-quality health services (Fernández-García et al, 2021;Mirbagher Ajorpaz et al, 2016). Thus, clinical education must be carried out in real-life clinical situations where students encounter healthcare service users, professionals and peer students in order to train for their professional role (Directive 2005/36/EC; Directive 2013/55/EU).The quality of the clinical learning environment is known to be associated to students' positive experiences of clinical practicum (Fernández-García et al, 2021). However, previous research has shown that there are challenges, both organizational and pedagogical, related to clinical learning environments (Cant et al, 2021;Manninen, 2016).Thus, the quality of clinical learning environments should be evaluated and developed systematically (Hooven, 2014).