Abstract Developing Allied Health (AH) graduates who are skilled in responding to public
health needs is crucial, particularly in rural areas where workforce shortages and poor …

Background Service-learning is an alternative model of work-integrated learning that
enables students to develop generic skills and competencies that all rural health …

Service learning is not a new concept in Australia, although it could be better harnessed in
rural Australian health student placements for the betterment of rural communities, students …

This preliminary national study is the first of its kind to investigate how service learning
placements are implemented in real world settings in rural Australia and what factors enable …

This article reports on a community-based service-learning program that aligned
occupational therapy and speech pathology student learning with service provision in order …

The program at the centre of this study was established in 2009 to address unmet allied
health needs for rural Australian children through a primary school-based academic service …

The impact of Australian disability policy reform, known as the National Disability Insurance
Scheme, on the capacity of rural health and human service organizations to facilitate higher …

This chapter presents service learning (SL) as a specialist practice within work-integrated
learning (WIL). Following a brief history of SL, discussion will move to how it is incorporated …

Objective To describe outcomes of a model of service learning in interprofessional learning
(IPL) aimed at developing a sustainable model of training that also contributed to service …

Service learning (SL) presents apposite opportunities for students to share with and learn
from businesses for mutually beneficial development and experience. This article focuses on …