Waranara Many Voices Podcast

In our latest episode Michael Dunne sits down with Lynn Monrouxe to chat about his recent paper

"Exploring the outcomes of a reflective teaching strategy with students: A feasibility study"

They discuss the value of reflection as a learning strategy for educators and health professionals, focusing on speech-language pathology students in Australia. They sought to address the challenge of diverse understandings of reflection and its implementation. The findings revealed that diversity in reflection approaches among students can promote engagement when fostered in a supportive learning environment, emphasizing the need for safe and timely reflection interventions to enhance students' reflective skills in real-world contexts.

In our latest episode, Samantha Schubert (University of Sydney) Niels Buus (Monash University, Melbourne) and Caroline Hunt (University of Sydney)sit down with Lynn Monrouxe to chat about their recent paper "Interrogation in clinical supervision sessions: Exploring the construction of clinical psychology trainees’ professional identities". They discuss how the paper addresses the intricate process of professional socialization in clinical psychology trainee supervision to uncover how supervision interactions impact the development of novice healthcare professionals' identities. Through the analysis of 12 audio-recorded interactions, the research identifies moments of interrogation initiated by supervisors, revealing two distinct frames - quality control and reflection - that influence trainees' positions, often resulting in a shift back to quality control.

In our latest episode, Belinda Judd from the University of Sydney and Marlena Calo from La Trobe University, sit down with Lynn Monrouxe to chat about their recent paper "Grit, Resilience, Mindset, and Academic Success in Physical Therapist Students: A Cross-Sectional, Multicenter Study". They explore the relationship between noncognitive traits, academic success, and clinical performance in physical therapist students. The researchers examined the levels of grit, resilience, and mindset type among final-year students from Australian universities. They found that grit played a crucial role in predicting overall academic success and clinical performance. Students with low levels of grit were more likely to fail clinical placements. These findings have significant implications for universities and educators, highlighting the importance of identifying and supporting students with low grit. Join us as we discuss the impact of this study and the potential interventions that can help develop grit in health professional students, ultimately improving their success and well-being.

In our latest episode Jennie Brentnall and Belinda Judd from the University of Sydney, chat with Lynn Monrouxe about their paper "Evaluating allied health students' readiness for placement learning". They delve into student readiness for work integrated learning placements and explore the challenges faced by health professional students, the importance of adequate preparation for placement learning, and the concept of 'readiness for learning on placement' as a construct. Immerse yourself in insightful conversations that uncover the significance of this research, its impact on student feedback and assessment, and the potential to enhance the quality of healthcare education. Don't miss out on this episode!

In this months episode, Professor Lynn Monrouxe speaks to A/Prof Gillian Nisbet from The University of Sydney and Tanya Thompson from South Western Sydney LHD about their collaborative study "From burden to benefit: a multi-site study of the impact of allied health work-based learning placements on patient care quality". Tanya and Gillian speak about their collaborative partnership approach, and whether the quality of patient care was enhanced when services were re-designed in this way. They discuss their findings, providing preliminary evidence towards improved patient care when a partnering approach is adopted which shifts the associated narrative from students as additional burden to students as benefit.

In this months episode, Professor Lynn Monrouxe speaks to Jacqueline Bloomfield from the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery and Carl Schneider, Sydney Pharmacy School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, on their quasi-experimental pre-test post-test study on large-scale introductory interprofessional education workshop for developing interprofessional socialisation in medical, nursing and pharmacy students. They discuss methodology and findings, which support the implementation of IPE for nursing, and pharmacy students, with a recommendation that these initiatives are introduced at an early stage in their education to promote interprofessional socialisation and are repeated throughout the curricula.

Ryan Taylor from the Sydney School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney and Waranara convenor, Lynn Monrouxe, sit down to discuss his co-authored paper "Academic expectations among university students and staff: addressing the role of psychological contracts and social norms". The paper explores student expectations of required workload, behaviour, resource use, role and relationship and the profound impact on success in higher education and inform satisfaction with their learning experience. We will discuss teachers’ expectations of students’ behaviour and the similar effect to the university learning experience and environment. Ryan will outline the areas highlighted in the study where the academic expectations of students and staff aligned or diverged and understand responses to any breaches of expectations.

Anne Honey and Merrolee Penman from the Sydney School of Health Sciences, chat with Lynn about their paper "‘You actually see what occupational therapists do in real life’: Outcomes and critical features of first-year practice education placements". They discuss how practice educators and academics need to design first year placements to ensure that students are provided with experiences that incorporate reality, participation and making connections to a bigger picture of occupational therapy service provision.

Dr Belinda Kenny and Dr Yobelli Jimenez from the Sydney School of Health Sciences share their expertise in publication "Ethics in Professional Practice: An Education Resource for Health Science Students". They discuss how to engage students in the topic of ethics and facilitate their skills to identify, manage and communicate ethical issues during professional placements. The resource was implemented with a cohort of 15 graduate-entry exercise physiology students and 59 undergraduate speech pathology students from the University of Sydney. Findings indicated that students valued the authentic ethics scenarios but experienced challenges when navigating online learning activities.

Join Lynn Monrouxe and Andrew Bartlett, as they discuss Andrew's systematic scoping review of competencies of preceptors in health professions. Andrew explains his publishing strategies, and the key differences for authors considering a rapid review verse systematic scoping review. The paper found that competencies with defined performance indicators allow for effective measurement and may be modifiable with training. To measure preceptor competency, the preceptor perspective, as well as peer and preceptee assessment is recommended.